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Up-to-date
bulletin
available

With the federal govern-
ment preparing to introduce
its own labor standards leg-
islation, a new edition of the
labor department’s annual
bulletin on provincial labor
standards at the end of 1963
has been released publicly.

The booklet sets out stand-
ards in force in December,
1963, under the various pro-
vincial labor laws. It covers
child labor, holidays, hours of
work, minimum wages, equal
pay, fair employment prac-
tices, weekly rest-day and
workmen’s compensation.

Among the important
changes in 1963 concern mini-
mum wage rates, school-leav-
ing age and workmen’s com-
pensation.

Union Shop
Proves Best

A Vancouver Board: of
Trade survey of more than
1200 labour agreements has.
disclosed that the union shop
is the most common form of
union security in the area.

The survey covered 154,200
employees and found 43% of
them work in union - shops,
17.5% in closed shops, 3% in
open shops and the balance in
other types of union agree-
ments.

Five hundred and eighty-
three firms employing 66,369
employees require that all
employees must join. the
union and maintain such
membership as a condition of
employment, usually within a
time limit imposed after em-
ployment.

Three hundred and _ nine-
teen firms, 26,995 employees
or 17.5% require union mem-
bership as a condition of em-
ployment where the company
usually recruits new employ-
ees from the union.

RAND FORMULA

COMPROMISES
The Rand formula is in ef-
fect for 52 firms, 14,432° em-
ployees or 9.4% requiring
payment of union dues by em-
ployees whether or not they
are members of a union. A
variation of this formula is

the Sloan plan which gives

non-members a voice in the
selection of union officers.

Less than 1% of the firms
surveyed have agreed upon
maintenance of membership.

The Rand formula plus
maintenance of membership
is in effect in 141 firms or
14,378 employees.

Only 26 firms employing
4,750 persons or 3% of the
number surveyed report the
open shop or no specific re-
quirement with respect to
union membership.

Farming’s cash returns in
the first three months of the
year rose to a record $875,-
000,000 or 33 per cent higher
than a year ago, paced by
good grain exports. But this
cash figure does not reflect
the rising amount of money
that the farmer must spend
each year on operations and
other costs.

CLC spells out

security

OTTAWA (CPA)—Organ-
ized labor has spelled out its
goals for old-age security.

The blueprint for the Can-
ada Pension Plan and for old-
age security pensions was re-
leased after the Canadian La-
bor Congress executive coun-
cil adopted a set of resolutions
referred to it by the April
convention of the CLC.

Highlights of the CLC’s
goals for the Canada Pension
Plan:

—Universal and compul-
sory coverage of all wage and
salary earners as well as the

self-employed. :
—Wage-related benefits in

the case of employees, based
on best earnings prior to re-
tirement.

—Full portability regard-
less of changes of employ-
ment or place of residence.

—Inclusion of survivors’
benefits.

—Eligibility for full bene-
fits at 65 years of age, provi-
sion for earlier retirement
due to total or permanent dis-
ability without reduction in
benefits and provision for
earlier retirement on a vol-

plan

untary basis with reduced

benefits. }
Protection of purchasing
;

against loss of purch
power due to oafation, Sale

enhancement of pensions in

keeping with improvements:
in the general living stan-—
dards. {

—Provision of a minimum
pension to assure all pension-.
sioners a health—and decency
standard—on retirement.

—Contributory provisions»
applying to employers, em-—
ployees, the self-employed)
and the government on an
equitable basis. {

AMEND OLD AGE PLAN
For the Old-Age Security
plan now in effect, the CLC
proposed: Fi
—Fstablishment of a bene-
fit of $75 a month payable at

65 years.

—Incorporation of an esca-
lator clause to provide auto-
matic protection against price”
increases.

—A periodic review by \
parliament of changes in liv- |

ing standards with a view to 5
adjustment of benefits.

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