IWA Presents Overtime Issue to Legislature -see MOORE es (ts iN Incorporating “/4e B.C. Lumberworker Official Publication of the Jetereattonal Woodworkers of p¥merted Regional Council No. 1 VOL. XXX. No. 1. VANCOUVER, B.C. 5c PER COPY <> ist Issue January, 1963 A MEMBERS OF LOCAL 1-71, IWA (the Loggers’ Local) in SSN, Ws 2 7 i.\ p Be e a Pe 4 d wt 5 ISS ih Rosen Le Meeting, held December 20-21, in Vancouver. o; : S! pf | session at their 13th Annual Delegated MOORE STATES Ruling Negates Union Contract The IWA has carried the fight against compulsory over- time for loggers as made possible by the Board of Industrial Relations directly to the B.C. Legislature. In a letter addressed to all members of the Assembly, Regional President Jack Moore has urged support of an amendment to the Hours of Work Act to make impossible permanent exceptions for any group of workers. The Union insists that exceptions should be made only when emergent conditions arise and upon agree- ment with the employees concerned. The IWA reasons for a di- rect appeal to the Legislature are set forth in the following submission. I am instructed by the Re- gional Council of the Inter- national Woodworkers of Am- erica to request your support of this Union’s petition for an amendment to the Hours of Work Act which will pre- serve the intent of the Stat- ute in its application to em- ployment in the logging section of the forest products industry. Such an amendment has now been made necessary by a recent change in the regu- lations by the Board of In- dustrial Relations respecting exceptions under Section 1 WHAT’S INSIDE which now exposes loggers to excessive and unwarranted See “CONTRACT”’—Page 2 ALUN Local 1-405, IWA, has been. successful in forc- ing the Crestbrook Tim- _ber Limited, Cranbrook, to pay all wages due a dismissed employee which were withheld by the Company because of an unsettled bill owed by the worker for lum- ber bought to build his home. Elmer Atwood, Finan- cial Secretary of Local 1-405, reports that the employee, William Allan Brown, was discharged from the Company’s W ood Processing Plant at Canal Flats, Novem- Lo 17. At ig eng of dismissal, Brown had wages owing to him in the amount of $417.35. Because Brown owed the Com: $423.98 for lumber he had purchas- LUA Fired Worker Gains Unpaid Back Wages Region 2 Re-elects H. Ladd Harvey Ladd, President of IWA Region 2, has been re- elected for another two-year term, in their elections just concluded. W. J. Pointon was returned as Vice-President and E. R. Patterson was returned as Se- cretary - Treasurer. Other members of the Executive Board are: J. M. Bedard, Charles Beaulieu, Evan Grif- fith, William Graham, James Rouw, and Edward Smiley. his ed from them, the Com- pany arbitrarily with- held his wages. When informed of the Company’s action, Lo- cal 1-405, after failing to receive any satisfaction from the Company Man- ager, immediately noti- fied the Board of Indus- trial Relations of the problem. In a letter ad- dressed to the Board’s Chairman, Mr. W. H. Sands, the Local pointed out that the Company’s action was a direct con- travention of the B. C. Government’s Payment of Wages Act and the Truck Act, The Board, on receiv- ing the Local Union’s letter, ordered the Com- pany to immediately pay Brown all wages due to CAULK DELEGATES CHALLENGE COMPULSORY OVERLOAD The 13th Annual Delegated Meeting of Local 1-71 IWA, the Loggers’ Local, made it abundantly clear that coast log- gers are fighting mad over the arbitrary imposition of com- pulsory overtime by the Board of Industrial Relations. Added to their grievances were problems caused by combination jobs and short-handed crews demanded by the employers. Reports on the mechanization of logging coupled with em- ployer disregard for employment needs proved so disturbing as to prompt strongly-worded resolutions on these subjects. Unjust political decisions were seen as necessitating still more LOGGERS PLAN FIGHT vigorous political action. The background of these problems and the related de- velopments in the economy were outlined by Regional President Jack Moore in an address to the gathering. Regional 2nd _ Vice-Presi- dent Jack Holst reported on the activities of the industry’s Wage Rate Revision Commit- tee, and the plans under con- sideration ‘to meet problems arising from the uses of new mobile equipment. Frank Howard M.P. in- formed the delegates of action ‘taken in the House of Com- mons to meet legislative needs, especially with.regard to the required deductions for loggers from taxable income. SOUND ADMINISTRATION Before proceeding to the election of officers for the ensuing year, the delegates gave consideration to the Of- ficers’ Report which disclosed that the affairs of the Local Union had been soundly and succ essfully administered. The audited financial state- ments indicated increased rev- enue and a substantial excess of revenue over expenditure, NOMINATIONS Nominations received were: President __. W. _H. Wilson Francis MacIntosh Vice-President _ R. Pickering (unopposed) Financial Sect. __ E. L. Freer (unopposed) Conductor ___ Gordon Davis (unopposed) Warden ____ Ben Thompson (unopposed) Trustee ____. Wm. J. Scott Walter Leonew For Board Members: Position 1 _.... K. Vognild Jack Pope Position 2 ____ L.. Sloat H. James See “LOGGERS”—Page 7 Local 1-85 Wins Unique Decision An arbitration Board award secured by Local 1-85 IWA, Port Alberni has been hailed as setting a unique precedent in the annals of arbitration proceedings. Gerritt Pley was held to be unlawfully dismissed after he accepted an alter- native order to go home when he objected to an order to move from one job to another. His reinstatement brought the substantial. retroactive adjustment of pay, $1,370.04. The incident occured in August at the Alberni Ply- wood Division of MacMillan, Bloedel and Powell River Ltd., where Pley was em- ployed as a dry feeder. He was ordered to move from the dry feeder job to the green chain. When he first objected to the order nothing was said at the time. Later the foreman ordered him to go to the green chain or “pick up your lunch buc- ket and go home.” Pley chose to go home. He understood that he was under suspension for the balance of the shift, and had no inkling that he had been dismissed until advised to that effect later by the management. It. transpired that employees in this plant had been disciplined pre- viously by the loss of a partial shift. The majority of the Board declared, “The Board is of the opinion that, on the evidence adduced, there is considerable grievor.” doubt as to whether the fore- man discharged the grievor $1,370.04 RICHER following Local 1-85’s successful handling of the arbitration case, Gerritt Pley hap- pily displays cheque received for that amount from the Company. or suspended him for the bal- ance of his shift on August 2, 1962. The Board resolves this doubt in favor of the