> 4 THE WESTERN CANADIAN LUMBER WORKER BY CLC DIRECTOR MANPOWER'S EFFORTS CRITICIZED OTTAWA — John Fryer, of Ottawa, director of re- search for the Canadian La- bour Congress, says unions have to bargain hard in the face of automation “‘to fill the gaps left by governments in its manpower, economic and social legislation.” “A major long-run full em- ployment policy has never been declared, outlined and carried out in Canada,” he told the Ottawa Chapter of the Canadian Information Processing Society in an ad- dress September 26th. RELOCATE WORKERS Yet a rapidly-growing econ- omy would not itself guaran- tee full employment. Also needed were manpower poli- cies to train, retrain and re- locate workers in the face of technological and other change. Mr. Fryer said recent de- velopments “seem to suggest” the federal government is be- ginning to recognize the need NEW LUMBER COURSE A very interesting course is presently being offered by the B.C. Institute of Tech- nology, 3700 Willingdon, Bur- naby. This course — “LUMBER PROCESSING” — consists. of approximately 21 sessions (lectures and/or laboratory work) in the following sub- jects: September 26: mills in B.C. October 3: Lumber Sorting, Storage and Handling. October 10: Mill Layout and Material Handling. New Saw- of a fully integrated set of manpower programs. “Un- fortunately, however, the re- sults of the department of manpower’s efforts to date ap- pear to have been somewhat less than spectacular.” Meanwhile, the workers’ only recourse was the collec- tive bargaining table. Unions would have to bargain for ad- vance notice of computer in- stallation, company - financed retraining and transfer pro- grams, non- promotional in- creases, severance pay, short- er hours, earlier retirement and larger as well as portable pensions. AUTOMATION He said loss of a job through automation meant more than loss of wages to a worker. If he found another job with a comparable salary with another employer, he started at the bottom of the seniority ladder. “Seniority is vital. It deter- mines, among other things, the degree of protection against layoffs, the right to promotion, length of vacation, amount of pension on retire- ment and so on. “With so much dependent upon the continuation of his job, it is inevitable that the . worker, through his union, will fight bitterly to keep it or to receive substantial com- pensation if he loses it.” WREAK HAVOC He added: “Yet at this very moment in history far too many employers can wreak havoc on the lives of their employees, their families and the communities in which they live, without even both- ering to discuss the situation with the people directly in- volved. Far too many of them take the attitude that the in- troduction of technological change is none of the em- ployee’s business, even if it costs him his job.” He said people should strive to make the age of automation “a human one.” HOW WOULD YA LIKE ME TO GET YA ON STEADY ON TH’ BOOM? NEW POVERTY DEFINITION “Poverty in the richer countries now means exclusion from the continually expand- ing comforts, opportunities and self-respect accorded to the majority of the population. It may impose hardships but that is not its defining characteristic. It is in equality and exclusion from the wider society that define poverty.” October 17: Twin and Quad Bands. October 24: Double Arbor, Sash and other Gangs. November 21: Chipping, Chippers and Quality Control. November 25: Chipping: Headrigs. December 5: Chipping Headrigs. January 16: Timber Supply and Forest Service Policy January 23: Log Scaling, Grading and Woods Bucking. 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