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Union calls for review of Weyco’s harvesting rights When ee user made an early October announcement that it would ae close its Carrot River sawmill and planer Altiicon Bay al milliin

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(> Framework reached for two Saskatchewan mills In early November, Quesnel-based C&C Wood Products announced that it and Weyerhaeuser have reached a letter of intent over the purchase a two Weyco operations — the Carrot

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Hudson Bay ply- wood plant. The mills have been for sale for over two years. Ee in the fae eee announced that |

indefinitely, throwi ‘k

the unemployment am Local 1 ee pres- ident Paul Hallen had met with C&C offi-

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provincial harvesting rights. Followina the Aopril |

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munities. C&C plans for value-added product lines. [> OSB 2000 takes down time In

of its giant pulp and paper

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Been cnerating at be its. oriented strandboard plant (OSB 000) in Hudson Bay. Local 1-184 president Paul Hallen, USW Canadian Director Ken Neumann, Distri D

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chairperson Bob Matters wrote Premier Lorne Calvert that Ww has failed to Ii

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agreement. Hallen said that Weyco’s action “tears the guts out” of small towns in the province. Brother Matters said that Hudson Bay shoul

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of the eee! s integrated log ee and transportation system for decades. He said the news has good potential for work-

[> The Harper-Bush softwood deal has nailed Tolko sawmill workers in The Pas, says Local 1-324 president Chris Parlow. He says that, in anticipation of the agree- ment, the company cur- tailed its graveyard shift in Chris Parlow early October, seeulling tn in

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i pl Hudson Bay d f ek’s main: tenance shutdown and will be down for two more weeks in January.

ESS = Federal NDP trade critic Peter Julian (r.) at Pern ing inT

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well. [> Town Hall Meeting i in the Pas On November 9, the ae

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should get no more timber. Since then a potential buyer has been found (see nape page)

for Carrot River

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joined by federal NDP International Trade Critic Peter Julian, who een Ae eee:

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present was UTU rep Kevin Goring, who

expressed the iy union’s concerns 1

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deal. The quota cap ip

from the Tolko mill by one-third. [> Shifts on and off Local 1-830 presi- dent Jack Alexander says Smurfit-MBI dropped its 3:3:1 shift and then put it

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3 back on, after the compa- | ny claimed it was costing them too much. Work

started to bunch up. Nine new members have been

Jack Alexander’ hired in Winnipeg.

THE ALLIED WORKER DECEMBER 2006 T 9