See THE WESTERN CANADIAN LUMBER WORKER _ AUGUST - SEPTEMBER, 1972

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UNION NEGOTIATING COMMITTEE at Meadow Lake are
left seated, Alex Smith, Local 1-184 President; Marvin Ar-
nold, Negotiating Member;_Ross Fallis, Plant Chairman.
Standing left, Fred Soderlund, Business Agent; Neil Menard,
Business Agent; Stan Parker, Regional 3rd Vice-President.

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LOCAL 1-184 |IWA MEMBERS employed at the Meadow Lake Sawmill Company, Saskat-
chewan, are shown at the meeting where they ratified their new contract which gave them
an increase of $1.75 an hour over three years plus a number of important fringe benefits.

The forest industry’s Single
General Arbitrator Mr. H. E.
Hutcheon has ruled that Local
1-85 IWA member Joseph
Larson employed at Mac-

suggested that he report for
work the next day and remove
the picture.

On reporting for work and in
the presence of the Shop

“The significant point that
emerges from the evidence is
that although the 3-day sus-
pension was given for Larson’s
conduct on December 15 if he

namely 45 minutes of work for
which no pay would be
received. On December 16,
Larson was given, in effect, the
choice of accepting that

“Question 3. Joseph Larson
was suspended for other than
proper cause on December 17,
1971.

H. E. HUTCHEON, Q.C.,

Millan Bloedel’s Sproat Lake Steward he advised the had removed the picture and penalty or going home. He © Arbitrator
| Division, was improperly foreman and the supervisor TeStoredthecabinet onhisown chose to go home and that
: suspended last December 17. that he would remove the pin- time on December 16 there choice in those circumstances
Larson, employed as an up whichwasstuckon the dolly would have been’ no suspen- cannot constitute proper cause ST ee
apprentice mechanic at the with shellac. sion. This follows from the fact for suspension.
Company’s machine shop, was ‘Thesupervisor then told him that on December 16 Larson “There was evidence and Pige
suspended for three days after that he had to remove the was told he could make up his argument directed to the point
complying with the shop picture on his own time. full 8 hours by working into the that the Company tolerated the | p
foreman’s order to remove a Larson refused and again went hours of the graveyard shift.I display of pictures in other
picture of a pin-up girl from his home. take from this that the decision areas of its operations, but I
tool dolly. The next day he went to the to suspend Larson was not consider that to be irrelevant
Prior to Larsen’s suspension, Local Office where he was made until after that meeting to this case. The Company
the mechanics at Sproat Lake advised to report back to work on December 16. The con- through its supervisor had the BROADWAY
; were housed in an old shop and follow the supervisor’s Clusion that emerges, itseems right to determine such PRINTERS
; which was covered with a request.Onreturningtothejob to me, is that the 3-day housekeeping matters and this LIMITED

number of pin-up girl pictures.

he was told to clean up the

suspension was imposed not

entire affair would have

i When they moved into the new dolly before doing anything only for the incident on stopped on December 15 if : :
caching shop the shop aed oe £ December 15, but because Larson had recognized that Pia Eee are ee
supervisor decided that the after spending forty-five L2™Son was unwilling on point. Bae)
glitter of the new surroundings Pautes Bees rite aucllec December 16 to accept the “The answers to the Im
should not, in his words “be na nicture he g lledi i additional terms of removing questions are: <5
marred by a display that was eco | the picture and restoring the “Question 1. (a) Joseph

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quite extraneous to the work
being performed in the shop.”
When he spotted the pin-up
on Larson’s dolly on December
15, he told the foreman to have
Larson remove it. Larson
suggested to the foreman that
“if you want it down take it
down yourself.”
Following a
disagreement between Larson,
the foreman: and the super-
visor, Larson decided that he
had no alternative but to go
home. That night he contacted

slight

a an officer of Local 1-85 who

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meeting attended by the Shop
Steward, foreman and
supervisor and informed that
because he disobeyed an order
on December 15, he was being
suspended for three days.

On hearing this, the officers
of the Local immediately filed
a grievance charging that the
Company was being vindictive
in imposing suspension after
Larson had carried out the
order on his own time.

Mr. H. E. Hutcheon, in
bringing down his decision,
stated in part:

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cabinet on his own time.

“My opinion is that there
was just cause for discipline
for the incident of December
15, but the Company chose to
impose a penalty for that

Larson was not suspended on
December 15, 1971.

“Question 2. (a) Joseph
Larson was not suspended on
December 16, 1971.

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