Friday 2 February 2007

From the President

The Wage Delegates met again with the Company on Thursday Feb. 1st for further discussions to address our concerns as well as their's on local issues that they want attached to any agreement we may come to to achieve enhanced severance packages. Most of the talks were around the implementation of flexible work practices ( as per the Letter of Understanding) in our Collective Agreement, Leave Smoothing, Trades Vacations, 4 Point Formula, Dept Seniority, Streamlined Operational Issues and some contracting out issues. Although these discussions were progressive we are far from any agreement. The Wage Delegates have been called to a Caucus Meeting in Vancouver on Monday Feb 12th to discuss the proposed Powell River Agreement that Local 76 achieved. We will not be meeting with our Management until after the Caucus meeting. At that time we will formulate a formal response to the companies proposal and get that info out to you asap. If there is anything that is worth considering we will hold special meetings for the membership to give the Wage Delegates direction on whether or not we go down this road.

Pete Rayburn

5 comments:

  1. The meeting was Feb. 1st and not the 4th Sorry about that

    Pete

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  2. The date has now been corrected in the post.

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  3. i would like to know what kind of streamlined operational issues thier talking about and also what is thier wish with department seniority ?

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  4. i dont recall powell river discussing there concerns with the caucus and i dont think that our local should be influienced to not go down the same road our sister mill did.. its about time our executive looked after its own membership without outside interference that might not really care about port alberni - the other mills know where our orders go when number 4 shuts down so dont believe they really give 2 cents when its every mill for itself when push comes to shove !!

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  5. one must remember that Coles and Huff signed up Drivers and as soon as that happened it meant that the mills could down size the maintence force. I dont recall the CEP talking to the membership about there plans with Drivers. Ues boys it is going to be an intersting year leading into negotions. Why do they want to look at Crofton for an example of flexable practises when maintence is done be the PPWC at this mill Grumpy cep 1119

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