THE WESTERN CANADIAN LUMBER WORKER

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Members of Local 1-207 of
the IWA employed by the
Zeidler Plywood Corporation,
jn Edmonton, Alberta, at-
tended a meeting in the city’s
Union Centre on November
4, called for two purposes:

e To hear a progress re-
port by Local Union presi-
dent Keith Johnson on pres-
ent contract negotiations, and

® To take part in an educa-
tional seminar conducted by
Regional staff representative
Tony Vanderheide on the sub-
ject of job evaluation.

The Local president re-
ported that a total of six meet-
ings have been held with the
company so far and that some
progress has been made with
regard to changes in contract
language.

The company has offered a
three-year agreement with
the following wage increases:

Seven cents effective No-
vember 1, 1967, six cents ef-
fective November 1, 1968, and

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five cents effective November
1, 1969.

The company further of-
fered to lower the present
qualifying length of service
for three weeks vacation at
six per cent from 15 years to
12 years.

The present contract, in
Article XVI, section 5 reads:
“Tt is agreed that the Com-
pany and the Union, shall
during the term of this Agree-
ment, make an honest en-
deavour to agree upon a job
evaluation program and to
use as the basis for discussion
the Job Evaluation Manual
for the Plywood Industry of
British Columbia dated Sep-
tember, 1955.”

In spite of this the company,
is apparently unwilling to
consider seriously the instal-
lation of a job evaluation
program.

Under the terms of the last
contract which expired Octo-

KEITH JOHNSON, president of Local 1-207, reporting to
the crew of Zeidler Plywood on the progress of current

conract negotiations.

Pictured with Keith are from left

to right: Al Henrey, Plant Committee secretary; Vinco
Zigart, Plant Committee chairman, and Arne Christensen,
Local Union financial secretary.

Keith Johnson, president of
- Loeal 1-207 repo rts that Weld-
wood of Canada Ltd. (Alber-
ta Division) officially shut
down its plywood A
_ turing plant in Northwest Ed-
-monton on October 31, 1967.
The operation had been un-
certification to the Alberta
cal of the IWA for some 11
and employed approxi-
ly 125 production and
tenance workers.
Edmonton factory of
(a subsidiary of
Plywood — Champion
Inc., New York) was

Wood

- in 1956 by Feldwood'a

respect to available programs
which fall under the jurisdic-
tion of that department as a
result of the Manpower Act,
such as Mobility and Adult
Retraining Programs.

The Local Union is making
every endeavor “to assist the
laid-off members in finding
new employment within the
woodworking industry or in
other. industries.”

A spokesman for the com-
pany cited the current slump
in residential construction as

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MEMBERS OF THE ZEIDLER PLYWOOD OPERATION in Edmonton held a meeting
on November 4 in the city’s Union centre to hear a report on current contract negotiations
and listened attentively to a lecture by Regional Staff representative Tony Vanderheide
on the scope, advantages and limitations of job evaluation programs in operations under

I.W.A. certification.

ber 31, 1967, the base rate for
male employees is presently
$1.83 per hour and the rate
for the highest paid produc-
tion worker, lathe operator,
is $2.18 per hour.

The going rate for general
maintenance, electrician,
welder and motor mechanic
is $2.18 per hour.

Female categories are di-
vided into two grades which
respectively carry the rate of
$1.65 and $1.75 per hour.

The following company pro-
posal on a management rights
clause clearly indicates the
attitude the company is pres-
ently taking:

“Management of the com-
pany and the direction of the
working force are vested sole-
ly and exclusively in the com-
pany, and shall not in any
way be abridged except by
specific restrictions as_ set
forth in this agreement.

“The company hereby re-
tains the sole and exclusive
control over any and all mat-
ters concerning the operation
and management and admini-
stration of its business; the
determination of the location,
relocations or termination of
any or all of its facilities in-
cluding, without limitation,

one of the main reasons for
the company’s decision to
close the plant.

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A usually dreary newscast-
er livened up his late program
one night with this report:
“Last night a woman woke up
to find a strange man bending
over her bed. After a brief
struggle, the man escaped
through a window.”

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the determination of the prod-
ucts to be manufactured or
the services to be rendered at
any or all such locations; the
determination as to whether
components, piece parts or
complete manufactured units
or services, or any other
work, shall be made, sub-con-
tracted or purchased; the di-
rection, instructions and con-
trol of employees including
but not limited to the deter-
mination of the number and
qualifications, technical, phys-
ical and medical, of employees
to perform work; the deter-
mination of quality and quan-
tity. standards and the re-
quired employee performance
in all job classifications to
such standards; the assign-
ment of work or over-time;
the right to select, hire, lay
off, reclassify, upgrade, down-
grade, promote, transfer, dis-
cipline, suspend or retire; the
right to determine and/or
eliminate job classifications
and to establish new rates of
pay therefor; the right to de-
termine the hours of work,
and the starting and quitting
time; the processes, methods
and procedures to be em-
ployed including technologi-
cal change; the right to make

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and enforce rules including
safety matters; and to per-
form all other functions in-
herent in the administration,
management and control and/
or: direction of business, ex-
cept as expressly and speci-
fically limited by the terms
of this agreement.

“The foregoing enumera-
tions of management’s rights
shall not be deemed to ex-
clude other rights of manage-
ment not specifically set forth,
the company therefore retain-
ing all rights not otherwise
specifically covered by this
agreement irrespective of
whether or not the same have
been heretofore exercised.”

In his lecture, Regional
staff representative Vander-
heide thoroughly explained
the origin, scope, limitations
and required contract lan-
guage for the evaluation pro-
gram in the B.C. plywood in-
dustry, and, having viewed
the plant previously, was able
to indicate resulting monetary
gains, if this plan was nego-
tiated into the Zeidler Agree-
ment.

The company has applied
for the services of a concilia-
tion officer.

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