VOL. XL, No. 2 a POPE VE RENAE LEE t+¢ Be Uae Be SOE ENOE EOE rere Fave Ke KeKE NOTE sien Canad ber worker VANCOUVER, B.C. IWA SOUTHERN INTERIOR Negotiating Committee from left, Wayne Nowlin, President of Local 1-405, Cranbrook; Bill Schumaker, President of Local 1-423 Kelowna (Secretary) ; Wyman Trineer, Regional 1st Vice-President {‘spokesman) ; Sonny Alexandre, President of Local 1-417 Salmon Arm. PULP CUTTERS BACK IWA IN SASKATCHEWAN The 325 employees em- ployed to harvest pulp-wood by Woodlands Enterprises Limited, in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, have voted to become members of IWA Local 1-184, In a government-conducted representation vote on March 1, 1972, the Pulp Cutters voted 125 to 113 to transfer to the IWA from their presently certified bargaining agent, the Construction & General Lab- ourers’ Union, chartered by the Labourers’ International Union of North America. It is expected that the Saskatche- wan Labour Board will issue. Local 1-184 a new certification within a short time. PERMIT No. 2075 VANCOUVER, B. THE LUMBER WORKER RETURN REQUESTED -.;, Commercial Dr., Vancouver, B.C. Thus, the Labourers’ Union has been completely ousted from the jurisdiction of the forest industry on the Canadi- an Prairies, a field which they entered in early 1967 through what the IWA alleged were fraudulent certifications and sweetheart agreements. The IWA had previously ex- punged the Labourers from Farmers Erectors (Rivers Sawmills) and Northern Manitoba Timber Cutters in Local 1-324 (Manitoba) and from Waskesiu Holdings in Local 1-184 (Saskatchewan) and, as well, retained certifi- cations which the Labourers attacked at Northern Wood Preservers and the Saskatche- wan Timber Board in 1-184. Regional Organizer Dick Larson headed up the Wood- lands organizing campaign with assistance from the staff of Local 1-184 and Business - Agent Art Friske of Local 1-324. Regional Organizer Mike Sekora and Local 1-217 Business Agent Hector Poirier were sent in to assist, prior to the representation vote, in order to get the IWA’s mes- sage to all workers in the Company’s nine widely-spread camps. Bob Schlosser, Internation- al Assistant Director of Or- ganization, in commenting on the successful campaign, said “I feel that we owe our thanks for this success to (1) the fair shake the IWA is now receiv- ing from the Saskatchewan Labour Board, newly appoint- ed under the provincial NDP government; (2) the excel- lent pulp cutting agreement negotiated at Northern Man- itoba Timber Cutters, year, which had pointed out to the Woodlands employees the IWA’s strength and abil- ity; and (3) the many long hours of hard work put into organizing and campaigning by the Regional Organizers and various Local Union Rep- resentatives involved in the campaign. last © lum 5c PER COPY Ries Nw IN ONE YEAR CONTRACT f } MARCH, 1972 SOUTHERN INTERIOR DEMANDS WAGE PARITY WITH COAST LOGALS IWA_ Southern Interior delegates attending their Wages and Contract Confer- ence February 19-20, Kel- owna, gave high priority to the demand for wage parity with coastal woodworkers. The demand for a wage in- crease of $1.14 an hour high- lighted the 41-point program- matic resolution formulated by the delegates from the 174 resolutions submitted to the conference by the member- ship. Conducting the negotiations for the Union, which are ex- pected to commence around the middle of March, are Re- gional 1st Vice-President Wy- man Trineer, spokesman; Wayne Nowlin, President of Local 1-405 Cranbrook; Sonny Alexandre, President of Local 1-417 Kamloops; Bill Schu- maker, President of Local 1-423 Kelowna, secretary. The following is a_ brief summary of the forty-one de- mands which call for: 1. A $1.14 an hour across- the-board wage increase. 2. A revision of 75c per hour on all categories in the logging and road building sec- tion of the industry plus fall- ing and bucking categories to be revised upwards to establish rates commensurate to rates paid in the logging section of the coast and these rates determined to be a minimum. Power saw rental be increased to $10.00 a day. 3. The travel time provision in the agreement for time spent, from marshalling point to marshalling point to be re- duced to 8% hours and that double time shall apply for all time spent as described above after 914 hours. 4. All trade categories as listed in Section 9 Supplement No. 6 (page 51 of the Master Agreement), with the inclu- sica of the category of grind- erman, be revised upwards of 50c an hour. 5. Standardization of grad- ing tickets and certification increments as follows: (a) A “Rp” ticket 15c per hour over and above indi- vidual’s job rate. (b) An “A” ticket 25c per hour over and above the individual’s job rate. (c) Certified graders work- ing as such to receive a further increment of 21c per hour. _ 6. All First Aid men to re- ceive an upward revision of 50c per hour. 7. A shift premium of 30c per hour for second and third shifts. 8. The Hours of Work Sec- tion of the Agreement be amended to define the eight- hour day and include smoke breaks and % hour lunch period. Any time worked at lunch period considered over- time. Three shift operations to have the option of the type of shift they prefer to work. 9. All overtime to be paid ~ at double time rates. 10. Two fifteen-minut rest See “INTERIOR” — Page 7 CLC BRIEF CONDEMNS LIBERALS FOR HIGH CANADIAN UNEMPLOYMENT The Canadian Labour Con- gress, predicting a continuing high rate of unemployment placed primary responsibility for the lack of work in Canada on the shoulders of the gov- ernment. The 1,700,000-mem- ber labour body devoted the main thrust of its annual memorandum to the cabinet to unemployment and the gen- erat economic situation. The submission said: “While 1972 should show some improvement, it is, un- fortunately, already inevitable SEVEN HOUR “SOAK” Kraft Foods, perhaps smart- ing on its image over a national boycott against its products, is. trying to touch up its looks with a promise to help the Canadian summer Olympic team. The big dairy-foods producer says it'll send one dollar to the team for every 50 labels deposited at chain stores. But consumers questioned how sincere the company’s efforts were. A Canadian BRITISH COLUMBIA ! Broadcasting Corporation consumer affairs commen- tator got the company to admit ic takes seven hours, on the average, to soak off the special super-sticking labels from a Kraft bottle. The company is the target of a boycott by the National Farmers’ Union, which wants to bargain with Kraft in On- tario for milk used in cheese and other dairy foods. \ "PRAIRIES | 5.8%. 72,000 UNEMPLOYED 189,000 UNEMPLOYED that we are in for another year of very high unemploy- ment. Unhappily, the mistakes of the past cannot be undone by waving a magic wand. But even more important is the fact that we still do not have an all-out commitment to wipe out the causes of unem- ~ ployment. “While it is not our inten- tion to engage in recrimina- tion, it is difficult to have con- fidence in the intentions of a government whose chief spokesman time and again airily dismisses a national problem of such grave dimen- sions. Whimsical statements so lightly tossed off do not en- gender confidence that the mistakes of the past will not be repeated. Nor do they give See “LIBERALS” — Page 2 January 1972 THE UNEMPLOYMENT PICTURE ACROSS CANADA