al ne att crepes i ane "VANCOUVER (CP) — ‘The’ International _ Woodworkers of America will ask B.C. forest companies for a 20-per-cent wage increase and a _ benefit package that, includes a cost-blliving clause, a accumulated time-oiff system and extra” _{ Unemployment benefits, Jack Munro, IWA regional president, told a news. conference that the proposals were reasonable and _ ce the. outcome of negotiations would depend ‘on. the: - "The union has asked for awage i increase , of pn’ . " gathour on the bare rate of $2.9 in a ane-year pact, . ‘The average IWA member makes about $11.50." It (A wants | . eonference Saturday after a three-day contract. -, , a0 wants a cost-ofliving clause. . . 2. # tae vet ae “yo LEGISLATIVE LIBRARY, . "PARLIAMENT ‘BUELDINGS, HICTORE, B.Ges , The accumulated time oft syeten regintiad by the 50,000-member union calls for employees to be - able to bank a half hour for each working day to be accumulated and taken as ‘paid time aff. This system would give workers about 16 extra days off each year, | * Munro said the union also wants an occupational _health and safety committee established funded by" . "company: payments of one cent an hour. - ‘The union also wants additional unemployment ‘benefits for Workers ‘who lose their Jobe, par- Heularly on a short term basip. “Im all, the union had 31 proposal in wht Monro called a people package. gins * . ry we eo LEE ETO , coup. TTS co. — TE a Ee _ Asked if the package will be difficult to obtain, . Munro said: “That depends on the attitude of the employers. i our employers go into this negotiation with the same attitude as other employers are displaying in 1981, it's Boing to be a very very long, -- “bot, dry summer, There's no doubt about it."" a - Munro said the cintrect could result in a strike if | the demands aren't met. The contract expires dune Me oo He’ ssid. be" supports. iim Kinnaird, : Federation ‘of, Labor. president, who has declared. - “war on employers because of hard-line approaches . BO. He had, harsh words for “management of Us. _ owned B.C. Tel, Calling company-chairman Gordon MacFarlane a “mouthpiece for computers ' in Orlando, Fl “y ‘think that maybe we have an advantage , -becauge our employers sre primarily based here and. “they. can make the « decisions.” He said the forest industry can expect to go into a . -high demand period in the next decade and although the end of 1980 and the beginning of 1961 have been "" “a little Soft” the last five years have been gotd.~ . “We want some of what they've: accumulated i) * said, ne . . . Delng taken by several in current negations, * vir this high, long real péak demand peried, Muaro. : 1 TERRACE ATTIMAT oo. the entire block: Centre; incidences. A downtown hotel was the vetim of a stink bomb attack Friday night, causing fire department officials here to initially assume that there was a nalural gas leak sufficient to blew up. Also hit Friday morning Was the . ; B.C. Telephone Company's. Primary © but members of the Telecommunications Workers Union, who have had picket action against . the Lakelse Hotel because ‘there are company employees living there, _ deny having anything to do with the ms ‘union denies stink bomb prank “We ‘tend. to think it was a foul- ‘scab,'” spokesman Ken Blanes. Rod Verstrate, owner of the Lakelse aid that the: . caused some people toleave but moat people remained in the hotel, “The fire department. thought ‘it was a dangerous natural gas leak, but - they were the only ones who were [| ‘Teally concerned,” said Verstrate. — The'stink bomb was placed in the . ‘air conditioning. Police say they are _ investigating and so far they have no smelling. ~ Hotel, : ' . ie ha are says TwU stink’ bomb-. ae NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A high school band drum major and two spectators were wounded when gunfire Shooting erupts. major Ray Johnson, i7, of St. . Augustine High” School - in New Orleans and spectator - Jolin Barker, 20, of Plaque- ' tines, a student at Nicholls ’ State University. The bullet went through Jotesen's cheek, and peck, of Canal Street, at the edge of the city’s French Quarter, - Assistant -band. directo? Edward Allen said the shouting occurred during 4 souffle that broke out when an armed young nial refused to give way to a St. MeKeel and eight: other marines who had been held _ hostage in Iran for 444 days