Nelson Daily News
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
contributor: [Gibbon, A. W.]
issued: 2024-05-09
issued: 1966-06-20
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note: MMM MMM GOOD In British Columbia Fifth of Labor Force on Strike or Negotiating VANCOUVER (CP) - More than one-fifth of British Columbia's unionized work force is on strike or involved in negotiations. On strike are approximately 13,000 of the 26,000 coastal lumber workers, about 1,500 Vancouver civic outside workers and 700 outside and clerical workers in neoghboring North Vancouver. The balance of the coastal woodworkers, members of the International Woodworkers of America (CLC), have served strike notice but say they will remain at work until an industrial inquiry commissioner files his report next week. Contracts still in negotiating stages affect 1,000 pulp and paper workers, 7,000 carpenters and 4,000 Cominco Ltd. employees at Trail. The 46,000 union members rep resent more than a fifth of B.C.'s unionized labor force of 238,000. FERRY WORKERS RESTIVE Trouble also is brewing among 500 workers who operate the B.C. government's big ferry fleet. Deck and catering workers voted 78 per cent against recommendations made by an employee . management committee on work schedules, about which the workers long have been complaining. The committee's report revising the schedules has been accepted by the cabinet. The ferry workers also are demanding collective bargaining "in its true sense," the union of their choice and dues checkoff. There were signs of a break Saturday in the most serious dispute; between the IWA and 120 timber companies. The Alberni IWA local voted 67.5 per cent in favor of returning to work today. About 800 of the local's 4,600 members left their jobs at two pulp mills Thursday. A spokesman said they will return pending completion of a report on the dispute by Mr. Justice Nathan Nemetz of the B.C. Supreme C ourt, industrial inquiry commissioner. At regional headquarters in Vancouver, the IWA negotiating committee decided at a meeting Friday not to intervene in the strike, which union leaders described as a "spontaneous walkout" initiated by the eight co…
note: The Nelson Daily Miner was purchased by F.J. Deane in April of 1902 and renamed The Daily News. It changed hands again in May 1908 when it began to be printed by the News Publishing Co. managed by W.G. McMorris.
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Nelson (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0442619
language: English
lat: 49.493333
long: -117.295833
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Nelson, B.C. : News Publishing Company, Limited
rights: Images provided for research and reference use only. Permission to publish, copy or otherwise use these images must be obtained from the Nelson Museum, Archives and Gallery: https://nelsonmuseum.ca
source: Original Format: Royal British Columbia Museum. British Columbia Archives.
type: Text