‘ ig | i ‘ - Waitea store’s more Senipr, : ae ‘employees ‘have been’ af TERRACE STANDARD Business REVIEW. The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, February 7, 2001 - Ai] | Election is already on for forestry spin doctor THE PROVINCIAL elec- tion has already begun as far as the B.C. forest indu- stry is concerned. Its tap lobbyist, Council of Forest Industries presi- dent Ron MacDonald, was here last month as part of a campaign-style tour of . : the province to make the health of the forest indu- stry an election issue. He’s in the midst of 158 speeches over four months all geared at making sure the industry’s needs ‘aren’t lost in the chaos of the coming campaign. “We want to make sure these things are election issues,” he said MacDonald measures his success by the degree to which both the govern- ing NDP and the opposi- tion B.C. Liberals have adopted COFI proposals for forest policy change. And on that basis, he says he’s doing well. The NDP has essenlial- ly agreed io at least three planks of COFT’s five-point plan for forestry change,. entitled A Blueprint For Competitiveness, MacDo- nald added. The B.C. Liberals have suggested they’d deliver on all five points, to vary- ing degrees, he said. MacDonald said both parties agree with the top Overwaitea layoffs hit staff here NINETEEN OF the Over- fected by the company’s plan to cut labour costs. Of the 19, six took transfers to other Overwai- tea stores — including Kiti-: mat - and. nine people: took enhanced severance packages, says company | official Darrel] Jones. Three people remain on the store’s recall list, four! had been on extended leaves and one person took part of a severance pack- — _ age and was hired back at a lower rate. Severance payments were three times what would normally have been the case, Jones said. “I?m not happy when one person has to leave,” he said. “We worked hard and we did our best to place as many people as we could,” The Terrace Overwaitea store was one of cight acrass the province at which United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 1518 mem- bers agreed to a mediator’s proposal last month to have senior people work half of the stores’ hours and junior people work the other half of the hours. In retum, the company agreed to keep open six stores that had been sche- duled to close this year. Terrace wasn’t one of those six but it was one of two on a special “watch list" of stores having poor- er economic performances. A mediator was calied . in last year in response to numerous filings by the company and the union to the provincial Labour Re: ; dations Board. Union members voted . in December to accept the mediator’s findings. As part of that package, Overwaitea agreed. to spend up to a $1 million at its store here to increase its competitiveness. “We're planning to in- Vest some money into the store in the near future,” said Jones who declined to give further details, ’ He didn’t rule out the | possibility the company 'y long-term plan is to find a, new site for the stare here. COFI PRESIDENT Ron MacDonald Is in the midst of a vigourous lobbying campaign to push the for- ast Industry's issues ahead of a provincial election. objective that the industry be given a secure land base that recognizes the “working forest” and pro- tects it from further incur- sions by environmentalists and other sources of ero- sion. But MacDonald, who has been a federal Liberal MP from the Maritimes and who has worked as a bureaucrat in the federal - government, won't say if COFT will back one party or the other in the elec- tion, which must be called by June. “COFI is not going to endorse any political party,” he said. “This election should be about PED a Sa a $368 “18,459 down payment. Includes reipht choices.” Another key goal is to resist environmental cam- paigners’ attempts to dras- tically reduce the annnal allowable cut from its pre- sent level of 71 million cubic metres of woad per year. Instead, COFI calls for an increase, arguing that improved productivity in second growth stands, among other factors, sug- gest that’s possible. “We think reason tells us we can go significantly higher on the same foot- print of land,” MacDonald said. He’s also pushing for. more flexible implementa- /mo* 36 monite Security deposi! waived air tax "1,045, tion of the Forest Practices Code to allow companies to fulfill its requirements “in a less costiy way, The province is already experimenting with an- other COFI objective — stumpage reform. It has gone ahead with a trial on the coast and here that bases timber royalties companies must pay the crown on a bidding system. Current overall govern- ment policy is to set stumpage based on gov- emment revenue targets, a factor companies say doesn’t reflect the reality of what they can get for the wood in the market- place, The final objective is to achieve, if not outright pri- vatization of forest land, then longer. term tenures , that will give the industry more time to profit from its investment in the land. “We have ta compete with operators who have large amounts of private lands,” MacDonald noted. All the elements in the COFI plan would help im- prove the industry’s com- petitiveness He said that would make the sector better ‘able to weather future market downturns, and de- liver.the forest royalties . government requires. & Thank You v On Sunday, January 28, 2001 local hairdressers held the 2nd Annual Cut-A-Thon at the Skeena Mall. The Pacific Northwest Region Committee chose te sponsor Tori Turner, a3 2 year old girl battling with cancer. The response from the public was outstanding. Thanks to the participation by local hairdressers, estheticians and masseuses, this event was a great success, We collected $1,700 which we hope will make a difference. With thanks and appreciation to: Shadez of Hair: Teri, Bonnie, Debbie * Shelby Images: Karlene, Denise, . 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