AUGUST, 1969

THE WESTERN CANADIAN LUMBER WORKER

IN LETHBRIDGE, ALBERTA

TWO IWA "FIRSTS"

WON AT GENERAL COACH

Two “firsts” for the IWA
have been established with
the signing of the new con-
tract agreement negotiated by
Local 1-206 IWA with the
General Coach Works of Ca-
nada in Lethbridge, Alberta.

The agreement, negotiated
by Regional 2nd Vice-Pres-
ident Wyman Trineer, Plant
Chairman Jim Watmough,
Plant Secretary Lorry Rus-
set and Syd Chiles, gives the
crew ten statutory holidays a
year—one more than in other
IWA operations in Regional
Council No. 1—and also stip-
ulates that double time will
be paid for all Sunday work—
another major breakthrough
in IWA agreements.:

Added to this the crew won
wage increases of 58 cents an
hour over two years, with the
first increase of 32 cents an
hour effective August 1, 1969,
and the second increase of 26
cents an hour effective Aug.
1, 1970.

Other provisions of the
contract called for:

e An increase in the shift
differential from 5 cents to 10
cents an hour.

e Lead hands to be paid 20
cents an hour above the high-
est rates supervised.

© Category revisions for 13
workers, ranging from 14
cents an hour to 20 cents an
hour.

e The employer to pay a

CLAC UNION OUT:

BULKLEY VALLEY CREW
VOTES TO JOIN IWA

One hundred and fifty-two
employees of Bulkley Valley
Forest Industries (BVFI)
have voted to oust the Chris-
tian Labour Association
(CLAC) as their bargaining
agent in favour of the Inter-
national Woodworkers of
America, Local 1-424.

In a statement, Bob Schlos-
ser, IWA Assistant Director of
Organization, said, “With a
total of 152 eligible voters
casting 127 ballots the employ-
ees of BVFI Houston Sawmill
and Planer Division gave the
IWA 83 votes, the CLAC 43,
with one spoiled ballot, in a
vote conducted by the Labour
Relations Board, on Wednes-
day, July 30th.

The Board ordered the vote
following an application for
certification, in June, by the
IWA. The Union expects offi-
cial word on the certification
within the next few days.

This is the fifth certification
obtained by the IWA for oper-
ations of BVFI, in the Burns
Lake-Houston-Smithers area
of the Province, covering over
450 employees. A further ap-
plication for the Company’s
Burns Lake and Smithers
Logging Districts, with 70 em-

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Board. The union expects to
receive this certification with-
in the next few days also. The
CLAC opposed the IWA for
each certification bid, with the
exception of the last.

BVFI employment will rise
to 800 when the Company’s
new sawmill, which is present-
ly under construction, is com-
pleted next Spring. Other
phases of the operation, in-
cluding a pulp mill, are to
follow with another 700 em-

ployees, many of them being
covered by the IWA certifica-
tions.”

Schlosser said that he was
very satisfied with the organ-
izational gains in the North-
ern part of the Province and
he gave full credit for the
achievement to Regional Or-
ganizers Jim Rouw and Frank
Stich who have been station-
ed in Houston during the
many campaigns.

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NOTICE

IWA members are reminded that the British Colum-
bia Elections Act provides for provision for voting when
absent from polling division and time off for voting.
SECTION 117 ae :
-(1) Provision for voting by voter absent from his polling

full day’s pay to an employee
for the first day of absence

as a result of injury, regard-
less of the number of hours
worked that day.

e Hours of work reduced

from 44 hours to 40 hours,
Monday through Friday.

© Leave of Absence to pro-
vide for persons appointed or
elected to union office for a
period up to two years.

e Annual vacations revised
from three weeks after ten
years to three weeks after 5
years.

e Group Lifes AD&D —
$5,000; Weekly Indemnity —
26 weeks at $50 per week;
Alberta Health Care Insur-
ance Commission coverage
and the Blue Cross Hospital-
ization Plan. Premiums shar-
ed equally between employer
and employee.

e Funeral pay for three
days at the regular wage rate
for attending funeral in em-
ployee’s immediate family.

e Provided 48 hours notice
of regular union meeting has
been given, no overtime will
be required on that day ex-
cept under emergency con-
ditions.

e Agreement of employer
to co-operate with the Union
Committee in administering
the incentive system.

division. ‘ .

For the purpose of exercising his franchise, any
voter whose name is on the list of voters for one
polling division of an electoral district, and who is
absent from that polling division on the day on which
the poll is held, may obtain a ballot-paper in any
polling-place of the same electoral district and may
record his vote in the manner provided in this section.
Procedure to be followed.

The voter shall apply to the Deputy Returning Of-
ficer at any time between the opening and the closing
of the poll, and upon his making an affiidavit in the
prescribed form, to be signed and sworn before the
Deputy Returning Officer, the Deputy Returning Of-
ficer shall furnish to the voter an ordinary ballot-
paper.

SECTION 200 — TIME OFF FOR VOTING
(1) Every registered elector of the electoral district who

does not have four consecutive hours free from his
employment between the hours of the opening and
closing of the poll on polling-day shall be entitled
to have such time free from his employment, without
loss of pay therefor, as may be required to provide
him with four consecutive hours between the. open-
ing and closing of the poll on polling-day in which to
cast his vote.

Said period of time shall be granted to each employee
at the time of day that best suits the convenience of
the employer.

Every employer who, without reasonable justifica-
tion fails to grant sufficient time off to an employee
or, having granted such time off, makes a deduction
in pay therefor shall be liable, on summary convic-
tion, to a penalty, in the case of an individual, of not
more than one hundred dollars and, in the case of a
corporation, of not less than two hundred and fifty
dollars. :

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