THE WESTERN CANADIAN LUMBER WORKER

NEW IWA POCKET GUIDE

New Stewards’ & Committeemen’s pocket manual prepared by Grant MacNeil,
Education Director of the Regional Council is now available for distribution.

The booklet has been designed by MacNeil to provide a ready reference guide
for Shop Stewards and Committee Members dealing with the day-to-day prob-
lems on the job. The booklets will be available to the Local Unions at actual cost.

STEWARDS’ & COMMITTEEMEN’S
POCKET GUIDE

WESTERN CANADIAN REGIONAL COUNCIL No. 1
INTERNATIONAL WOODWORKERS OF AMERICA

SECTION |
Foreword

SECTION III

-Your Regional Council __
Regional Trustees
Local Unions _.
Local Union Membership Dues

and Initiation Fees _.
Per Capita Tax
Strike Fund an
Functions of Regional Council
and Regional Office
Organization and Co-ordination ___
Negotiations _....__
Research, Education and
Public Relations _...._
Western Canadian Lumber Worker_
Plywood Job Evaluation _..._.__
Safety Program .
Health and Welfare _..._ =
Regional Officers —._-_ >
Regional Directory

SECTION IV

Trade Union Affiliations _..-_S
The Canadian Labour Congress

/NDG) SAC) (0)
. ICFTU _. 2
Base Rates
Plywood Job Evaluation _..-
Political Action
Msabour Way Ses gee
Federal Labour Laws _.
Labour Laws in British Columbia
Labor Relations Act of B.C.
B.C. Trade Unions Act _.... wb
Alberta Labour Laws
Saskatchewan Labour Laws

AFL - CIO, CLC

11

PRIMARY REASON

“One of the primary reasons why vocational guidance
programs in our high schools are relatively useless is
that counsellors do not have sufficient information to
relate a particular student’s pattern of abilities to attain-
able educational and occupational goals; the result, of
course, is unrealistic aspiration, a high failure rate, and
a high loss of talent. The second obstacle facing voca-
tional guidance is a lack of long-range manpower fore-
casts. The three-year projections now provided by the
Department of Labour are of extremely limited value in
counselling students who must make educational deci-
sions — in some instances irreversible decisions — five
to ten years prior to their entry into the labour force.”

—Dr. F. G. Robinson, Director, Canadian
Council for Research in Education in a
paper “Canadian Education — 1965”

COMPANY DOMINATION

New evidence of company
domination in the National
Council of Canadian Labour
(NCCL) unions came out in
an Ontario Labour Relations
Board case involving an Ot-
tawa contractor, Nick Giam-
berardino and Brothers Ltd.

The Board found that
Giamberardino personally
talked to an employee about
“the union” and said: “We
just want to put them in.”

He later told another em-
ployee: “We don’t need you
now. We have enough.”

The Board’s report says: “It

was clear from the evidence
... that Giamberardino spoke
to the employees one day be-
fore they went into work and
told them that the union was
a good union for the work-
ers.” The Board also saw
some significance in the fact
that some of the employees,
although summoned by the

intervening union — Local
527, International Hod Car-
riers and Labourers — and

paid conduct money, arrived
at the hearing in their em-
ployer’s car. A vote was
ordered for the Labourer’s
Union.

Manitoba Labour Laws _...

SECTION V

Workmen’s Compensation _

“Do’s” and “Don’ts” __

Directory of W.C.B. Offices
Safety Program _

Safety Policy

Unemployment Insurance

" SECTION VI

Tips on Job Stewards’ Duties

Personal Memo ....
Stewards’ “Basics”

SECTION II

Your International Union _.
O}inet] eae

Constitution _..

Building Your Union _____

Grievance Procedure
What Constitutes a Grievance

Investigation of a Grievance
Write It Down—Why?

Writing a Grievance

When a Grievance is Filed

Agreement

Departments ____

RE MONS peste ee

International Budget
Subsidies

Membership: Dues; Per Capita Tax__..

SECTION VII

Claude Jodoin, president of
the Canadian Labour Con-
gress made the following
statement on the Govern-
ment’s decision to cut back
on public construction pro-
jects:

“This action will deprive
thousands of Canadian work-
ers of new job opportunities
during the coming year and
may restrict this country’s
continued economic growth.
It will affect not only con-
struction workers but also
workers employed in mater-
ials production and in the
production of consumer goods
for a market which depends
to a large degree on the pur-
chasing power of workers, In
other words its impact will
be felt throughout the
* economy.

“The Government says that
Serious inflationary pressures
make the cutback necessary.
We say, ‘Where is the evi-
_ dence?’ The Government has
presented no convincing evi-
A dence that we are in danger
of runaway inflation. A few
_ Seattered indicators may

Personal Notes

strong restraining action
taken by the government. Re-
peatedly, in this country, gov-
ernments have panicked at
the first hint of rising costs
and have adopted measures
which choke off economic ex-
pansion. Now it is happening
again. The lessons of the past
have not been learned.

“The Government appar-
ently has rejected the advice
of the Economic Council of
Canada. In its First Review,
the Council urged strong ex-
pansionary measures to gen-
erate adequate levels of de-
mand and rapidly expanding
employment. It also advised
the government to avoid pre-
occupation with short-term
fluctuations in economic ac-
tivity and to fasten their at-
tention on the long-run goals.

“The Government seems to
have done the direct opposite
of what the Council advised.
They have been startled by
a short-run fluctuation into
action which may prevent the
attainment of long-run ob-
jectives.

“We cannot hope to reach

Meeting Procedure _.___
Grievance Forms

| JODOIN SCORES CUT BACK

cil for 1970 if the Govern-
ment is so frightened of in-
flation that it cuts back
spending on job creating pro-
jects at the first sign of cost
pressures. This was done in
1959, just as we were emerg-
ing from recession, with the
result that we slipped right
back into recession the next
year.

“The Economic Council of
Canada has set a target of no
more than 3 percent unem-
ployment. Unemployment has
been declining during the
past three years, as economic
conditions generally have im-
proved, but we are still ap-
preciably short of the Eco-
nomic Council’s target. The
unemployment rate last year
was 4.7 percent and this year
will probably be between 4
and 5 percent. I might add
that even 3 percent unem-
ployment is regarded by the
Council as only an intermedi-
ate goal and that it will aim
at a still lower level for the
future. If these employment
targets are to be reached,
there must be no interruption
of government spending on
public projects.”

Don’t be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You
can’t cross a chasm in two small jumps.—David Lloyd George.

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