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Jobs, peace, top election issues

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Wednesday, July 18, 1984
Newsstand Price 40° Vol. 47, No. 28

Shoreworkers at Canadian Fish Co.’s home plant in
ancouver (above) and Steveston plant of B.C.
ackers (where union president Jack Nichol addresses

Bathering) walked out July 11 to begin a 4-day strike

ater resolved when fish companies agreed to fish

Price hikes, wage hikes and union input into techno-

gical change. Fishermen, shoreworkers and’ tend-

€rmen, members of the United Fishermen and Allied
Orkers Union, along with the 1,100 fishermen in the

ative Brotherhood voted last weekend to accept a.

0-year contract that will see rates for fish increase

five per cent and up, hikes of 3.5 and four per cent

®ach year in tendermen’s daily rate of $143.49, and
Wage hikes of 40 and 45 cents respectively for the
Ourly-rated shoreworkers. Fishermen voted 67 per
Cent, tendermen 79 per cent, and shoreworkers by a
“substantial margin’ to accept the pact, said UFAWU
Usiness agent Bill Procopation. Details on the agree-
Ment to jointly study tech change introduced by
8utomatic fish washing machines installed in three
lants so far were sketchy at press time. Procopation
Called the settlement a “victory. We not only held the
ine against cutbacks, but we reversed the trend. No
“dig really liked the fish prices, but there will be

| Ncreases, not cuts, in prices in 1984 and 1985.”

RIBUNE

Trades set boycott
Sas Expo, non-union
Bfirms scuttle pact |

The employer-government hand that has
been manipulating events at Expo 86
moved once again last week to block an
agreement with the Building Trades
Council — and demonstrated once more
that the Socred government intends the
Expo site to be a central arena in which the
“free enterprise” battle with the trade union
movement will be fought out.

As a-result of the latest scuttling, the
Building Trades Council announced that it
would take part in no further negotiations
and would move immediately to launch a
boycott of Expo, involving lottery ticket
sales and participation at the fair itself.

“We are going to extend our contacts
fairly wide,” council president Roy Gautier
told a news conference July 12. “If the Expo
people have decided to cast their support to

the non-union sector, then we must do what

we have to do to defend our position.”

Also up for discussion among the affil-
iated unions are future actions against the
non-union contractors and the possibility of
B.C. Fed-issued hot declarations which
could affect telephone, sewer and B.C.
Hydro hookups.

Building Trades Council officers met
Monday with the B.C. Federation of Labor
which announced that it would launch a
public information campaign and would
press foreign exhibitors to use union labor.

The proposal put to the Expo board last
week by the Construction Labor Relations
Association, representing the unionized
contractors, contained two new concessions
from the Building Trades Council — an
agreement that J.C. Kerkhoff and Sons
would be exempted from the wage pact
covering fair construction and a further
agreement that the $1 an hour increase
negotiated for union tradesmen would not
apply to non-union workers.

The concessions, only two of several that
the trades had made in seeking to reach
agreement, in fact answered the outstanding
issues which had been raised by the Expo
board last month when it last scuttled the
tentative settlement.

But on July 12, the Expo board again
shifted ground and insisted that any agre-
ment must peg wages for the non-union
employees at no more than $15.25 per .
hour — some $3.50 an hour less than the
rate previously agreed to in negotiations
with the Expo board.

The board arrived at that position follow-
ing meetings between Expo management
and various non-union contractors — who
had been organized by a committee led by
Bill Kerkhoff and other members of the
right-to-work Independent Canadian Busi-
ness Association (ICBA).

see EXPO page 8