FROM PAGE ONE THE WESTERN CANADIAN LUMBER WORKER 3 “| OCALS’ DEMANDS JUSTIFIED” | VACATIONS WITH PAY That Article XI, Vacations with Pay be amended to provide for three weeks vacation with pay for one to five year employees, four weeks vacation with pay for five to ten year employees, five weeks vacation with pay for ten to fifteen year employees, six weeks vacation with pay for fifteen to twenty year employees, seven weeks vacation with pay for twenty year ati over employees, and that we demand an increase in the amount of 2% over present vacation pay schedule. The present contract provisions are: 2 weeks after 1-5 years service at 4% of total wages. 3 weeks after 5 years service at 62% of total earnings. 4 weeks after 20 years service at 82% of total earnings. FARE ALLOWANCE That a new Article XIII be negotiated to properly and adequately deal with the problem of fare allowance. : The present contract provides loggers with fare allowance to and from the point of hiring only when laid off before working 20 days. If laid off before 40 days one-way transportation is paid only. HEALTH AND WELFARE That Article XV, Health and Welfare be amended to provide for a union- administered Health and Welfare Plan totally paid for by the industry, and that the weekly indemnity be raised to $75 per week. The present contract provides for a joint labour-management Board of Trustees with premium payments borne equally by employees and employer. The present weekly indemnity is $50.00 for 39 weeks. PREFERENTIAL HIRING The inclusion in this year’s negotiations of a new clause giving prefer- ential hiring to employees displaced by closures and/or lay-offs throughout the industry. This demand is designed to reduce the increasing unemployment caused by the rate of displacement and closures. SENIORITY An amendment of Article XVII, Seniority, to provide that thirty calendar days constitute the probationary period. At present the probationary period is thirty working days often unjustly computed. TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE d Negotiate clarification of the intent of Article VI, Technological Change. The present contract provision requires six months’ notice of technological change but makes no definite provision for re-absorption of displaced workers. SEVERANCE PAY _ That in this year’s negotiations all employees receive one week severance pay for each year of service with the company when terminated through plant closure or retirement, unless re-hired by the same employer. This demand is designed to broaden the existing provision for severance pay which applies only when displacement can be shown as due to technological change. SUB-CONTRACTORS AND OWNER OPERATORS Negotiate a new section in this year’s contract requiring that all em- ployers consider sub-contractors and owner operators as employees of the parent company for the purpose of the application of the terms of the master agreement. ; The growing practice of contracting out various phases of lumbering opera- tions has deprived a large number of workers of the contract benefits negotiated. RECOMMENDED CHANGES TO THE COAST MASTER AGREEMENT Articel 1: Amend the Check-off form to include the follow- pany will furnish a Seniority List twice each calendar BARGAINING AGENCY ing: ES year. Section 1: i a application for ile lee a Atticle XVIII: J Delete the words “office employees” from this © provide a space for the Local Union num- : Sesion, ber to he inserted, showing ws the PE AVE OF AbOl NCE Article Il: Secti euuployes wigs _previouslysemployed, Delete this Section from the Agreement. EMPLOYER'S RIGHTS ~ dd esi 1-288 ; Sections 3 and 4: ection 1: ; Amend these Sections to provide that leaves of ~ Re-write this Section to provide that manage- PLYWOOD JOB EVALUATION bience Gaecgcane wHiilhees ment in exercising its rights will adhere to the Section 4: Female Rates: i provisions of the agreement and the rights of the Delete from the Agreement. Article “XXIV: employees under law. Article XVII: ARBITRATION Article Ill: SENIORITY Section 1: Interpretations: | UNION SECURITY Section 9: Re-write this Section to provide for a one-man Section: 6: Gheckoft: Re-write this Section to provide that ‘the Com- Arbitrator, to be agreed upon by the Parties. cemccccccccmcraen renner FROM PAGE ONE be known as the “Mediation Commission,” which shall consist of a Chairman and if the Lieutenant - Governor in Council so determines, such number of other members as may be so determined. 29. (1) The Chairman and the other Commissioners shall be appointed by the Lieuten- ant-Governor in Council, and each of them shall hold office during the good behaviour for a term, not exceeding ten years, fixed by the Lieuten- ant-Governor in Council at the time of appointment, but may be removed at any time for cause by the Lieutenant- Governor in Council. (2) The Chairman and the other Commissioners are eligible for re-appointment. 18. (1) Where a dispute be- tween any employer or group of employers and his or their employees or a trade union is not resolved, and,in the opin- ion of the Lieutenant-Govern- or in Council, it is necessary, in order to protect the public interest and welfare, that no employee shall strike, @ and no employer shall “LABOUR LEGISLATION CONDEMNED" lock out his employees; or (b) an existing strike or lock- out shall immediately cease, the Lieutenant-Governor in Council may (i) refer the dispute to the Commission; (ii) Order that the Decision of the Commission with respect to the dispute, whether such Decision is given on a reference pur- suant to paragraph (i) or otherwise, is final and binding upon the parties except to the extent that the parties agree to vary the same. (2) An Order given un- der this section expires on all parties to the dispute signing and executing a collective agreement, 19. (1) The Lieutenant- Governor in Council may at any time (a) refer to the Commission (i) any matter affecting the general welfare and con- ditions of employment of persons employed by the Crown in right of the Province, or -otherwise appointed pursuant to the Civil Service Act; or (ii) any difference relating thereto between the Civil Service Commission and a group of employees (within the meaning of that Act) or their author- ized representatives; (b) Order that the Decision of the Commission with respect to the reference shall be final and binding upon the employer and such employees to whom the Decision relates. (2) For the purposes of this section, the Executive Council shall be deemed to be the employer of persons em- ployed by the Crown in right of the Province, and this sec- tion applies to the Crown in right of the Province accord- ingly. 21. (1) Where an Order is made under section 18, then in the event that the parties do not sign and execute a col- lective agreement in conform- ity with the Decision, the De- cision shall have effect as if it were, and shall be deemed to be, a collective agreement en- tered into between them. (2)(c) each trade union, any member of which is then on strike or locked out, shall forthwith notify its members to discontinue the strike (if any) and, in either case, to return to and continue their employment. (3) Where an Order is made under section 18 but a strike or a lockout is not in effect on account of the dis- pute, or such a strike or lock- out has terminated in conse- quence of the Order, (a) no trade union or other person shall declare or purport to authorize a strike; (b) no employee shall strike; (c) no person shall declare or purport to authorize a lockout; and (d) no employer shall lock out employees, until after the expiration of the term of the collective agreement made or deemed to have been made pursuant to the Decision to which the Order relates and the condi- tions specified in section 24 are satisfied thereafter, 22. Where an Order is made .under section 19, then, with- out prejudice to subsection (2) of section 50, if there is a strike in effect on account of the difference referred to in the Order, (a) each employee who is then on strike shall, with- in twenty-four hours of the date of the Order, dis- continue his part in the strike ‘and return to the duties of his employment; and (b) every person who has acted as an authorized representative in relation to the difference shal] forthwith notify the em- ployees to discontinue the strike and to return to and continue their em- ployment. 52. Every person who hin- ders or obstructs the Commis- sion, or any person authorized by the Commission under sec- tion 44, in the exercise of any power conferred by that sec- tion is guilty of an offence and is liable, on summary convic- tion, to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars or to im- prisonment not exceeding three months, or both.