PLYWOOD REVIEW MEMBERS from the Coast Locals attending the two-day Plywood Seminar held April 10-11, at Woodworkers’ House, Vancouver. COAST PLYWOOD COMMITTEES ATTEND JOB EVALUATION SEMINAR Plant Review Committee Members from the sixteen. plywood, board and veneer operations on the lower main-: land and Vancouver Island,’ and plywood local union offi- cers attended a Job Evalua-, tion seminar conducted by Regional Council No. 1 at. Woodworkers House, Van- couver, on April 10 and 11. — Regional President Jack Moore opened the course, which was chaired by Region- al 2nd Vice-President Wyman Trineer, President Moore out- lined in general, — made by workers from the pre-union days when employ- ers themselves arbitrarily set wage rates; to the winning of legal status and bargaining status by Unions and on up to the present time. He cited as one example of progress the I.W.A.’s success in the B.C. plywood industry, which in 10 years’ time has advanced THESE KIND OF PEOPLE JOIN LABOUR UNIONS What kinds of people are most likely to join a labor union—and why? To find out, the AFL-CIO organization department re- cently asked the political-sci-: ence department of the San Fernando Valley State College to make a survey of 500 work- ers who had participated in National Labor Relations CORBEIL RE-ELECTED Local 1-85 IWA Financial Secretary Maurice Corbeil has been re-elected Financial Secretary of the Port Alberni & District Labour Council during the elections held at the Council’s Annual Meeting April 15. Other officers elected are, President Dan Connell, 1st Vice-President Walter Behn, 2nd Vice-President Lawrence Sailor, 3rd Vice-President R. Hopkins, Recording Secre- tary N. McMillan, Sergeant at Arms Jim Spencer, 3 Year Trustee E. R. Nase. HANEY HANEY BUSINESS GUIDE ESQUIRE MEN’S WEAR (Graham Mowatt) Complete Stock of Work and Dress Clothing “THE STORE WITH THE POPULAR BRANDS” ‘Board elections over a two- year period in Los Angles and Orange counties, California. Here are some of the facts turned up: The prounion worker is— © likely to be a _ strong Democrat with “liberal” views. © More likely to be marr- ied than single. © 14 per cent more likely to be a woman than a man. © Probably a veteran of at least 10 years on the job. One of the more encourag- ing results of the survey, ac- cording to an AFL - CIO spokesman, was the fact that the pro-union vote among young people was only 4 per. cent below the total sample. The reasons stated for fav- oring union membership ran like this— 1. Union representation and collective bargaining insure better pay and job security. 2. Unions bring improved fringe benefits, such as pen- sions, holidays and sick leave. 3. There is more fairness in pay, promotions and senior- ity rights. 4. Unions provide griev- ance procedure. Older work- ers tended to rank this higher. 5. A union contract gives better control over speedup, production standards and quotas. The survey indicated that those who voted against the unions did so mainly for two reasons: They didn’t like the idea of “having to join” and paying dues. And they didn’t think they needed a union. ‘ BRITISH COLUMBIA advances. from the lowest paid wood- working sector in the prov- ince to a position where the weighted average hourly wage, (developed from Re- search Department statistics of both the International and Regional Unions), is now ten cents per hour higher than the weighted average hourly wage of the B.C. sawmill worker. The “training” portion of the seminar was carried out: by Regional Evaluators Al Busch and Tony Vander- heide, and involved subjects such as: e A history outline of job evaluation within Regional Council No. 1. e Contract language cover- ing Plywood Job Evaluation. ® Analysis of the B.C. job Evaluation Manual. THE WESTERN CANADIAN LUMBER WORKER REGIONAL PRESIDENT Jack Moore opening the Ply- wood Seminar at Woodworkers’ Hall, April 1!. Group left: Plywood Evaluator Al Busch, Plywood Evaluator Tony Vanderheide, Moore, Regional 2nd Vice-President Wyman Trineer, who chaired the conference. © A job rating “workshop” of “ficticious” categories. © Working relationship be- tween the Plant Review Com- mittee Members, the local union and Regional Evalu- ator. © The completion of a “questionnaire” on the vari- ous aspects of plywood evalu- ation by the seminar partici- pants summed up the instruc- tion given and indicated a better understanding of the job evaluation program. 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