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Vol. XXXII, No. 16 VANCOUVER, B.C.

“| MESSAGE

By JACK MOORE

Regional President

Successful negotiations on detailed improvements to
the Plywood Job Evaluation Manual have resulted in
specific changes in the point value of
the majority of job categories under
evaluation in the B.C. Coast Plywood
Industry.

As your Regional President | wish to
point out that all applicable adjustments
are now being effected by the Industry
Job Evaluation Committee and the re-
sulting changes to the existing supple-
} ments are being made available to all
Ba Local Unions and companies concerned.

The Coast Negotiating Committee urges all plywood
_workers NOT to submit job study requests — “blue
forms” — on the basis of the changed rate structure
in the plywood operations. Contract clauses pertaining
to “changed” and/or “new” jobs must be strictly ad-
hered to in order to prevent an unwarranted and futile
» demand on the Regional Evaluation Department.

-“Boundary”

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INTERIOR OPERATORS

Local 1-423 (Kelowna)
held a regular meeting of the

Sub-Local in
Grand Forks on Saturday,
July 16, 1966. Well over 50%
of the total membership pack-
ed the hall to the rafters in a
mass demonstration of their
dissatisfaction with the atti-
ture of management- repre-
sentatives on the Southern In-
terior Joint Industry Commit-
tee regarding category rate
revisions.

The committee met on June
23, 1966 in Penticton in order
to try and resolve several ur-
gent problems. While some
progress was made on such is-
sues as Fire Fighting, Mar-
shalling points for emvloyees
of Kootenay Forest Products
Ltd., Training programs for

STALL RATE REVISIONS

stalemated on the subject of
category rate revisions.

Completely contrary to the
intent of section 15 of the 1964
Raguin report the IFLRA
took the position that the
Joint Committee did not have
the authority to discuss rates
and/or categories and Mr. C.
Garrside summarized the As-
sociation’s vosition as follows:

“You, the Union, have to
deal with each plant. individ-
ually; We, the Association,
are not prepared to deal with
revisions at this level and
have no authority, but we will
pass on your requests and
convey your arguments to our
princivals and let you know.”

In his address to the ““Boun-
dary” Sub-Local meeting Re-
gional Second Vice-President
Del Pratt pointed to numer-

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Unions and the B.C. Coastal
area and assured the member-
ship that the Union represent-
atives on the Southern Inter- °
ior Joint Committee were de-
termined to pursue this mat-
ter to its fullest extent with
the Association. He stated “as
recent as the morning of this
meeting I have contacted Mr.
J. Muirhead of the IFLRA by ~
telephone in order to arrange
further meetings, but he in-
formed me that some of his
members on the committee
are on holidays and further
meetings could not definitely
be scheduled at this time.”
Numerous speakers from
the membershin supported
the position outlined by the
Regional Second Vice-Presi-
dent and condemned — in no
uncertain terms—the foolish
attitude taken by their em-

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| he STRI KE ICT Y workers negotiations were— category rates between the rocketing cost of living, rising
a7 P and still are — completely Southern -Interior Local See “REVISIONS”—Page 3
+ On June 15, 1966, approxi- the boundary of the Com-
, mately 160 loggers employed pany’s property near the
at the Harrison Mills Logging highway.

Division of Canadian Forest
Products Ltd. went on a legal
strike in an effort to resolve

\ a five year old grievance.

This grievance started

‘when the Company closed its

cook and bunkhouses and

‘unilaterally decided to retain

the same location for its fu-

‘ture marshalling point, some

seven miles inside the Com-
pany’s property.

The crew objected to this
and argued that the marshall-
ing point should have been
relocated to the parking lot on
the Chehalis logging road at

‘Following the company’s
promise to bargain in good
faith and after avproximately
six weeks of strike action the
crew voted to return to work
on July 13, 1966, with the un-
derstanding that if Canadian
Forest Products Ltd. failed to
live up to its promise, the
original picket line would be
re-established.

Local Union President Glen
Haddrell and Financial Secre-
tary Art Corey report that
Local 1-367 and Canadian
Forest Products Ltd. reached

a satisfactory agreement as
See “VICTORY’—Page 4

AN OVERWHELMING TURNOUT of the “Boundary” Sub-Local membership demon-
strated dissatisfaction with their employers’ present attitude towards category rate
revisions in the face of tremendous profits a rising cost of living and the provisions

of the 1964 Raguin report.

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SIMCICH
COMMENDED

Walter Simcich, Director of
the International Research
and Education Department,
has been highly commended
by Regional President Jack
Moore in his letter to the In-
ternational President, A. F.
Hartung.

Following is the text of
President Moore’s letter:

“On behalf of the members
of Regional Council No. 1, I
wish to express our deep ap-
preciation to the International
Union for making Brother
Walter Simcich available to
us for an extended period of
time during our recent nego-.
tiations.

“He did a tremendous job,
and was outstanding in get-

ting facts and figures in our

WALTER SIMCICH

industry, contributing much
to the eventual settlement,
which was the best in our his-

tory.”

MEMORANDUM
SIGNED

The negotiating committee
of Local 1-288 reports the
signing of a Memorandum of
Agreement with Forest In-
dustrial Relations Ltd. on
July 25, 1966.

Ballots have been mailed
to the Local membership and
tabulation will take place o n
August 10, 1966.

Following is the complete
text of the above memoran-
dum:

FOREST INDUSTRIAL
RELATIONS LIMITED

agrees to recommend to the
Trustees of the PACIFIC
LUMBER INSPECTION
BUREAU, (hereinafter called
the “Bureau”) and the EXEC-
UTIVE COMMITTEE of
LOCAL UNION NO. 1-288,

See “LOCAL 1-288”—Page 4