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1st Issue
Jan., 1966

DESIGNED to go anywhere this Pac-Trak vehicle was one
of the many pieces of equipment displayed by manufac-

turers at the recent Truck Loggers’ Convention at the

Bayshore Inn, Vancouver.

(See other pictures, page 5.)

TRAINING PROGRAMME

Local 1-71 President Ernie
Freer reports the Local Union
has signed a Memorandum of
Agreement, December 20,
with the Crown Zellerbach
Company for a comprehen-
sive Job Training Program to

cover all the Company’s op-
erations in the Local.

ERNIE FREER

Under the terms of the
Agreement, all logging cate-
gories with the exception of
fallers, buckers and choker-
men, have the right to apply
for job training opportunities.
Trainees will be paid their
regular job rate during the

training period. Applicants
will be selected on the basis

of seniority. Further job
categories may be added by
mutual agreement between

the two parties.

An important provision of
the Agreement is that opera-
tors or instructors engaged in
instructing trainees will re-
ceive an additional ten cents
an hour to their regular job
rate,

To overcome the reluctance

of operators to train others -

having more seniority, the
Union agreed to a clause in
the Memorandum which pro-
vides protection for junior
nstructors except during per-

of reduction of the work
In this event, the em-
h the most seniority

The Company has agreed to
post all job training opportun-
ities in advance for a mini-
mum of twoconsecutive
working days. Any employee
absent from his operation has
the right to bid on a posted
training position, provided he
gives the Company advance
notice of his intention on the
form provided by the Com-
pany.

The Company has also
agreed to notify both the
successful and unsuccessful
applicants, as well as the
Camp Committee, the name
or names of those chosen for
training. If a selected trainee
fails to qualify for the posi-
tion after sufficient training,
he will be returned to his
regular job without loss of
departmental seniority.

Only the Company has the
right to determine whether
a trainee has _ successfully
qualified. It must, however,
notify the Committee in writ-
ing when the trainee is judged
to be qualified or for any
reason removed from the
training program.

Protection for all the em-
ployees is provided in the last

two clauses of the Memoran-
dum which state:

“(g) When the trainee is
qualified for the job for which
he has been trained and the
Committee notified, he shall
then be considered competent
and eligible for a vacancy in
that category, in accordance
with the provisions of Article
XVI, Sections 1 and 4.

“(h) No presently qualified
employee and/or qualified
trainees will be displaced by
trainees receiving instruction
under this Plan except where
such displacement is made
during a reduction of forces
and the junior employee is
laid off in accordance with
the provisions of Article XVI,
Section: 2, of the Master
Agreement. On recall from
layoff the junior employee
will be returned to his regu-
lar job.” :

Over 5000 woodworkers in
the Coastal forest industry
will receive substantial up-
ward wage adjustments under
the terms of the Memorandum
of Agreement signed between
the IWA Regional Council
and Forest Industrial Rela-
tions Limited, January 20, in
Vancouver.

All increases are retroactive
to January 1, 1966. Both the
Union and F.I.R. are recom-
mending acceptance of the
Agreement.

An- Agreement was also
signed by the two parties for
a Millwright Apprenticeship
Training Programme which
will now give Coast mill-
wrights with certificates an
additional 21 cents an hour.

The IWA Coast Negotiating
Committee, headed by Re-
gional President Jack Moore
and having representation
from every Coast Local Un-
ion, spent the past six months
negotiating with F.I.R. on the
new wage revisions. The Com-
mittee’s success in winning
the new increases for so many
members, outside of broad in-
dustry negotiations, is a new

_milestone in the history of the
Regional Council.

The following is a list of the
revised job categories showing

the new hourly wage in-
creases:
SAWMILL Per
Hour
Head Band Sawyer __.... 25c
Head Circular Sawyer — 20c
Main Edgermen __..-__. 15¢
Automatic Trimmermen
40’ and over _.... — Pilbye
Automatic Trimmermen
tinder 402 ene 10c
Grader No. 1 __.. _ 15¢

Grader No. 2 _.2..------------ 12c
Junior Grader _....-- 10c
Grader Tallyman _---.... 15c
Tallymany see 10c

a tn
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JACK MOORE

ELECTRICIANS
15c per hour plus 21c for tic-
ket.

FIRST AID ATTENDANTS
FULL TIME

Average hourly rate for
these attendants, regardless of
the type of ticket was $2.44.
The new rate now provides
an increase to $2.50 for em-
ployees with ‘C’ tickets, $2.55
for ‘B’ tickets, $2.60 for ‘A’
tickets and $2.65 for ‘AA’
tickets.

FIRST AID ATTENDANTS
OCCUPATIONAL RATE

The hourly rate for these
attendants varied from five
cents for a ‘C’ ticket to 20
cents for an ‘AA’ ticket. The
revised rates are:

UNION WINS INCREASES

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4 FOR SKILLED COAST WOODWORKERS

Per
Hour
‘CO Ticket = 3 es 15c
‘BRB’. Ticket. Sa 20c
(Ae Wicket 2 ese 25¢
SWAY Ticket +] saan 30c

LOGGING BOOMMEN

The boom rates and cate-
gories have now been stand-
ardized.

Head Boomman $3.05 an hour.
The old rates varied from

$2.91 to $2.94%2.

2nd Boomman $2.85. Old rate
$2.78¥% an hour.

Boomman_ $2.75.
$2.65% an hour.

Boom Boats $2.80.. Old rates
ranged from $2.71 to $2.83
an hour.

Bundling Machine Operator

$2.94. -Previous rates var-
ied from $2.90 to $2.944% an
hour.

Boring Machine Operator
$2.78. Old rate $2.73.

A survey is to be made on
Outside Boat Rates. Log
Markers and Scalers rates

will be dealt with on a Local
level.

SAWMILL BOOMMEN

Old rate

Per

Hour

All Categories 10c
All Boatmen __.. 12c
Further to this it was

agreed by both parties, “That
a joint study be made of cate-
gories and rates in Bocming
grounds in manufacturing
plants, for the purpose of as-
sessing the need for deletion
or addition of job categories
based on duties and responsi-
bilities.

“The target date for com-
pletion of this study shall be
three months from the date
of signing the agreement.”

HUGE VOTE WINS AGREEMENT

A ninety percent vote for
strike action by Local 1-417
IWA members employed at
the new H. K. Plywood opera-
tion near Salmon Arm, J2nu-

-ary 12, forced the Company

to settle its 5-month-old dis-
pute with the Union over the
terms of a first agreement.

Within hours of being serv-
ed the Union’s 48-hour strike
notice, the Company, a sub-
sidiary of the Federated Co-
operatives Ltd., signed a

Memorandum of Agreement
with the Union.

Following ratification of the
Memorandum, the Local Un-
ion and the Company issued
of joint statement which stat-

“The Company and the Un-

ion have agreed to sign the
Standard Southern Interior
Master Agreement; to defer
the question of a lower wage

structure for females until in-
dustry negotiations in 1967;
to include in the contract a

See “AGREEMENT”—Page 2