VOL. XLII, NO. 5 . VANCOUVER, B.C. Ta\ 4 a =~ s ic & lumber wor e>* Ke f JUNE-JULY, 1974 a eA LOCAL 1-184 IWA MEMBERS who negotiated the new Master Agreement for three Sash and Door Plants located in Regina and Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. Group left, Brian Jones, Local Financial Secretary Ted Becker, Local President Neil Menard, Don Erhardt, Don Miller, Joe Jesky, Jerry Rusnak, Joe Korte. a ae $3 MMASTERAGREEVENT =D BY LOCAL 1-184 SASK. _ Local 1-184 IWA has signed its first Master Agreement covering the employees of three Sash and Door Plants in Regina and Moose Jaw, Sas- katchewan. The new two-year agreement will give the employees of the Pre-Built plant in Regina and the Moose Jaw Sash and Door Ltd. and R. L. Cushing Mill- work Co. also of Moose Jaw, across the board average wage increases of $1.39 plus classi- fication adjustments. Fringe benefits negotiated include: General: — changes in job posting. — number of classifications reduced from 32 to 22. Leave of Absence: — educational upgrading with pay — first aid course made available — increased from 10 to 19 the Address yncorytwte C] Adresse incommplate I syed, address Unknow iy (Resi sons tarseor J’ adres x. ak ra) =_ xs se ra st 3§ 6 Wo, Tr g rR H RETURN REQUESTED Post Uihica d dy ae assistant as immediate family in the bereavement clause. Hours of Work: — double time on Saturday and Sunday. — any portion of % hour overtime paid at % hour over- time. — increase meal allowance to $3.00 for anyone working more than 11 hours overtime. Annual Vacation: —January 1, 1975 — after 1 year service, 3 weeks at 6 per- cent — January 1, 1975 — after 13 years service, 4 weeks at 8 per- cent — One additional day for every year after 13 years to a maximum of 6 weeks vacation Health and Welfare: — cost share 80 percent eee Company, 20 percent em- ployee. — $10,000 Life — $10,000 A.D.D. — weekly indemnity 2/3 weekly earnings to maximum $113.00 per week. — plan is based on first day accident, fourth day sickness. — Major Medical Sask. Medical Services Incorporate Plan ‘‘B’’. — Increases gained in mil- eage allowances and travel time. Negotiating for the Union were Local President Neil Menard and Financial Secre- tary Ted Becker who were assisted by Plant Committee Members Brian Jones, Don Erhardt, Don Miller, Joe Jesky, Jerry Rusnak, and Joe Korte. PENSION NOTICE any members of the IWA negotiated pension plans p not completed and mailed Enrollment Cards to the Administrator. f you have not done so yet, please get a card from your al Union Office or your company and send it in. The Enrollment Card serves a number of functions of benefit to you and to the Plan. For instance if you are entitled to a past service benefit the card makes it possible for the Plan Administrator to establish this entitlement. Even if you don’t have a past service entitlement the card will provide a cross-check of your Social Insurance Number. Records of all your pension credits, past and future, are recorded using your Social Insurance Number. It also provides a record of your home address so that information can be sent to you annually concerning your hours credited for pension in each Plan Year. ; So if you have not completed and sent in a Membership Enrollment Card, do so as soon as you can. It’s in your in- terests. Jack Washburn Director of IWA Pensions BY 63.3% COAST MEMBERS ~ APPROVE NEW AGREEMENT. IWA members have voted by over 63% to accept the new terms of the proposed Memor- andum of Agreement. recom- mended unanimously by the Union’s Negotiating Commit- tee to settle the coast forest in- dustry contract dispute. The ballots were officially tabulated by the Union’s Tabu- lating Committee and the re- sults announced by Regional President Jack Munro July 31, following two weeks of ballot- ing. by the nine coast. Local Unions. The vote in favour of accept- ance is a marked reversal of the previous vote and vindi- cates the position of the Union’s Negotiating Com- mittee in refusing to call a strike as demanded by a vocal minority. The new one year Agreement boosts the wages of all hourly rated employees by sixty-five cents an hour or twelve per- cent, whichever is greater. The increase is retroactive to June 15, 1974. Piecework employees will receive the same increase as an addition to their existing daily rates. In addition to these increases a number of job categories in the sawmill and logging sec- tions of the industry were given upward adjustments retroac- tive to last March 3. The Agreement also contains what is considered the finest cost-of-living allowance clause ever negotiated by a union in British Columbia, in a one year contract. The COLA clause takes effect 22 working days prior to January 1, 1975, and the amount paid will be equal to one cent for each 0.35 point rise in the Statistics Canada Consumer Price Index. Another first in the Agree- ment calls for production .em- ployees to receive rate and one half for Saturday work and double time on Sunday for those who have worked five shifts during the preceding six days. Minimum guaranteed daily earnings were also negotiated for a considerable number of categories in the shingle mill section of the industry. Includ- ed in this-was rates for stand- by time. The shift differential for the second and third shifts was in- creased to 18 cents an hour for all sections of the industry. One new statutory holiday, British Columbia Day, was negotiated bringing the num- ber of statutory holidays to ten. ‘Improvements in vacations eall for 1-3 years, 2 weeks at 415% 3-12 years, 3 weeks at 614%; 12-20 years, 4 weeks at 814%; 20-27 years, 5 weeks at 101%; 27 and over, 6 weeks at 121,%., ; See “COAST” p-3 BY LARGE MAJORITY INTERIOR MEMBERS ACCEPT AGREEMENT 1 | | | | 4 Eight thousand IWA mem- bers from three locals in the Southern Interior voted over- whelmingly July 29, to accept an agreement hammered out over six weeks of bargaining in Kelowna. The agreement did not come easy. The negotiating commit- tee, made up of Wyman Tri- neer Regional Council First Vice-President; Stan Parker, Regional Second Vice-Presi- dent; Bill Schumaker, Presi- dent of the Kelowna Local; Wayne Nowlin, President of the Cranbrook Local and Sonny Alexandre, President of the Kamloops Local, were forced to call the membership out on strike to back their position. The strike had been under- way for thirty-six hours when the industry finally settled. Cancel, which bargains sepa- rately from the employer asso- ciation set the stage for settle- 4 ment by coming to agreement the previous day. Towards the end the major hangup was contractors and subcontractors and the saw- mill wage curve. The Dept. of Labour became involved when the Deputy Minister Jim Mat- kin and the Associate Deputy were sent to Kelowna by the Minister of Labour to help iron - out the problems facing the two sides. After all day meetings with both sides the Deputy Minister presented wording on the contractors and subcon- tractors issue to the parties. The union accepted Matkin’s proposal but the industry re- fused. Four days later after revi- sions were made to the Deputy Minister’s original wording the industry came to an agreement on the contractors and subcon- See “INTERIOR” p-3