a) Severance Pay b) Travel Time c) Bereavement Leave «d) Jury Duty Leave e) Annual Vacation — that the amount of COLA in effect during the quarter that an employee takes his vacation shall be paid for all his vacation entitlement hours. 3) A new section to provide an annual folding of the COLA float into the employee’s - straight-time category rate ef- fective on the anniversary date of the respective Agreements. 4) We amend Section 3(a) to provide for quarterly adjust- ments in the hourly COLA commencing July 1975. 4. APPRENTICESHIP — FILING ROOM CATEGORIES: An Apprenticeship Program that will develop a sufficient incentive between filing room categories. 5. PLYWOOD EVALUATION: ‘ Improvements to both th Plywood Job Evaluation Wage Curve and the Plywood Job Evaluation Manual. 6. SHIFT DIFFERENTIAL: The Shift Differential Ar- ticles be amended to provide for fifty cents (50c) per hour for second and third shifts. 7. HOURS OF WORK: The appropriate Articles be amended to provide a reduc- tion in the hours of work with no loss in pay. 8. HOURS OF WORK — OVERTIME RATES: The appropriate Articles be amended to provide double rates of pay for all overtime and double rates of pay for all work performed on Saturday and / or Sunday. 9. HOURS OF WORK: A new Section defining:. (A) Work Day (B) Work Week (C) Shift Schedule 10. HEALTH & WELFARE: The appropriate Article be amended to provide the following: (A) Section 3: Insurance Coverage (a) Group Life Insurance for each qualified employee in the amount of $20,000. (b) Accidental Death and Dismemberment Insurance in the amount of $20,000. (ec) Weekly Indemnity based on 75% of weekly earnings at the Industry base rate for fifty- two (52) weeks. (d) That all fees charged for the filling out of required certi- ficates or documents for Medical Weekly Indemnity be paid for by the Plan. (e) That long-term disabil- ity benefits shall be provided. (f) That there shall be a three (3) day waiting period on Weekly Indemnity for illness. (B) SECTION 5: GENERAL PRINCIPLES (e) Coverage for Health and Welfare and Dental’ during dpa be provided as (i) Employees with one (1) or more year’s seniority — One THE WESTERN CANADIAN LUMBER WORKER (1) year, plus one (1) addi- tional month for each year’s service, up to an additional six (6) months. (ii) Employees with more than 30 days but less than one (1) year’s seniority — three (3) months. (C) DENTAL PLAN (a) (i) Basic dental service (Plan A) — Plan pays 100%. (ii) Prosthetics, Crowns, and Bridges (Plan B) — Plan pays 100% of approved schedule of fees. (iii) Orthodontic (Plan C) — The Plan pays 75% of approved schedule of fees. (Lifetime maximum $1,000). (iv) Premium cost to be fully paid by the Company. (v) Fees charged for filling out forms or documents for Dental be paid by the Plan. 11. PENSION PLAN: (A) The Plan shall be funded by Industry Contributions of Forty (40) cents per hour per employee per hour worked. (B) That all time spent on Vacation, Statutory Holidays, Workers’ Compensation or Weekly Indemnity shall be considered as hours actually worked for purposes of Pension Plan Funding Payments. (C) That 1300 hours per year be the requirement to attain full pension credits. (D) BENEFITS i. Future service credit shall be Thirteen ($13.00) Dollars per year. ii. Past service benefits shall be Eight ($8.00) Dollars per year. ili. Increase all pensions now in course by 60%. 12. ANNUAL VACATIONS: The appropriate Articles be amended to provide increased vacations as follows: (A) Three weeks after one year of service. Four weeks after four years of service. Five weeks after ten years of service, and thereafter an ad- ditional one week’s holiday with pay for each additional five years of-service. . (B) That earned annual va- cation payments be based on two and one-half percent of annual earnings for each week of holiday entitlement or the employee’s regular wages, whichever is greater. 13. STATUTORY HOLIDAYS The appropriate. Articles be amended to provide the following: (A) Deletion of the words “notwithstanding (i) above, the employee must have worked one day before and day after the holiday, both of which. must fall within a period of sixty (60) calendar days’’. (B) Add anew sub-section to read: “That in the event the Federal or Provincial Govern- ments declare an additional statutory holiday, the said holiday shall be recognized by the companies as being in the Agreement’. (C) Two (2) floater holidays per contract year which can be taken at the employee’s discre- tion provided the employee notifies the company. 14. FARE ALLOWANCE The appropriate Articles be amended to provide that all fares be paid by the employer except on voluntary termina- tion. 15. SENIORITY The appropriate Articles be amended changing the proba- tion period from thirty (30) working days to thirty (30) calendar days. 16. CONTRACTORS AND _ SUB-CONTRACTORS . . An Article entitled Contract- ing and_~ Sub-Contracting to read: 1. The Company - will _ not enter into any logging contract with any contractor, sub-con- tractor, or employer, who has committed any unfair labour practice as defined in the Labour Code of British Colum- bia Act and the Company will cancel any contract entered into with any contractor, sub- contractor, or empleyer who has committed any unfair labour practice as defined in the Labour Code of British Col- umbia Act. 2. An improved contractors and sub-contractors clause to include all contractors and. sub-contractors engaged in both the woods and manufac- ~ turing operations. 3. The parties agree to es- tablish a continuing committee to study problems resulting from contracting and sub-con- tracting area by area and to recommend solutions to those problems. The Company further agrees it will not enter into any logging contract with any contractor, sub-contractor or employer who has a reputa- tion which the joint committee considers contrary to the best interests of the industry. 17. SAFETY EQUIPMENT: The appropriate Articles be amended to provide that the items listed below, be provided and maintained at no cost to the employee: . Caulk Boots . Safety Shoes . Rain Gear . Gloves . Coveralls . Aprons 18. PERMANENT CLOSURES: The appropriate Articles be amended to provide severance pay for all employees in plants and logging as a result of permanent layoffs due to partial and/or complete closures or any other reason. 19. UNION LABEL: A new Article to provide that the IWA union label be applied and visible on all products manufactured under IWA Agreements. 20. NON-UNION LABOUR: HOT PRODUCTS A new Article to provide that IWA members have the right to refuse to work with non- union labour and/or handle non-union products. Aum PWN MARCH, 1975 AREA DEMANDS 21. Sawmill and Pole Yard Job Evaluation: Improvements to both the Sawmill and Pole Yard Job Evaluation wage curves and the Sawmill and Pole Yard Job Evaluation Manual. 22. Health and Welfare: : Layoff coverage as outlined in the demand on Health & Welfare-Dental Coverage be applicable to medical coverage. 23. Annual Vacations: An addition to the demand on Annual Vacations to provide: (a) All earned vacations must be taken. (b) Vacation pay shall be paid an employee upon request within 14 days after completion of said vacation year in which he or she becomes entitled to receive this vacation. 24. Logging Categories Ad- justments: (a) Logging categories in the Northern and Southern Interior be revised with com- parable Coast logging categories. (b) We further attempt to reduce the fallers’ hours to a 6% hour day. 25. Pension Plan: One IWA Pension Plan to cover all IWA members in the Northern Interior, Southern Interior and Coastal area. Eligibility service time to be portable. The funding of the Plan to be in line with. the demand on pensions. 26. Union-Management Meetings: A new provision under Ar- ticle I, Bargaining Agency to read as follows: “The Company and the Union will meet at such time and place as may be mututally agreed upon for the purpose of discussing wages and: working conditions and adjusting any matters within the confines of this Agreement which come within the scope of collective bargaining between employer and employee.” POINT 27. Preferential Hiring Demand that: (a) It is mutually agreed that when hiring new employees, preference shall be given to those applicants seeking employment in the order set out herein: (i) Former employees of the parent Company ‘seeking employment as a result of operational closures or crew reduction in other operations of the Com- pany. (ii) Applicants seeking em- ployment as a result of closure of certified Interior Forest Labour . Relations operations. (iii)Applicants who have had previous seniority with the ~ Company and who have applications on file. (b) A Committee will be created to establish pro- cedures. POINT 28. New Construction We demand Article XXX of the Southern Interior Agree- ment to apply to the Northern and Coast Agreements. POINT 29. That in 1975 Area Negoti- . ations, we demand that three joint Committees and Em- ployer groups to deal with. the problems of Tradesmen Logging Sawmills... and that these Committees be empowered to re-adjust cate- ‘gories different groupings upon consultation with the con- cerned Local Unions. POINT 30. That we demand a new Section in the I.W.A. Master Agreement entitled a Fair . Hiring Clause which will provide that there will be no discrimination in hiring on the basis of Race, Religion, Politi- cal Belief, Sex or Union Ac- tivity. POINT 31. That it be a demand in 1975 negotiations that when an employee transfers to a management position, his or her seniority shall cease after 90 days and if he or she returns to the bargaining unit shall be classified as a new hire, except for vacations. day sex break. union secretary reported. fil it. hour. says. ONE WE MISSED - Gold miners in Suva, Fiji, are seeking a 30-minute mid- The miners believe this is the best time for sex, their The demand is one of a number of issues the 1,600-strong union is discussing with the mining companies. The miners state that a man has a sexual obligation to his wife and, if he goes home exhausted at 5 p.m., he cannot ful- .The union wants the sex break added to the normal lunch After lunch and a short rest, a man is in prime mental and physical condition to meet his sexual obligations, the union The union proposes to limit the sex break to married men. Alternative arrangements would have to be made to com- pensate the bachelors, the union states.