The Peninsula Times
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
issued: 2015-01-09
issued: 1976-03-03
description: Serving the Sunshine Coast.
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note: ..-��� ( . '��� ���- A A ( ��� ��� / / j : ���'���/'. i : I. >J . :'/���? A --t 2nd Class Mail Registration No. 1142 Serving the Sunshine Coast, (Howe Sound to Jervls Inlet), including Port Mellon, Hopkins Landing, Granthams Landing, Gibsons, Roberts Creek, Wilson Creek. Selma Park, Sechelt, Halfmoon Bay, Secret Cove. Pender Hrb., Madeiro Park. Garden Bay, Irvine's Landing, Earls Cove, Egmont Union e^fe^Si Label This Issue 14 Pages LARGEST READERSHIP OF ANY PAPER ON THE SUNSHINE COAST. Volume 13 - No. 14 Wednesday, March 3,1976 If Port Mellon workers are forced by the anti-inflation board to take .less than the bargained settlement, they want the cash value of the decrease to be fed into the community. After a meeting of Local 1119 of the Canadian Paperworkers' Union Saturday in Gibsons, local president Ron McPhedran said the 1.1 per cent settlement decrease the anti-inflation boaj/d has called for would mean an $80,000 profit bonus for the Port Mellon pulp mill in the first year of the contract. In the first year of the contract settlement workers were to receive a 16.1 per cent in- - crease. The anti-inflation board wants that rolled back to 15 per cent. Saturday's meeting was called to review the situation. Approximately 100 union members attend the meeting. McPhedran said the company has already budgeted for the setUed increase and decreasing the settlement would mean a higher profit for the company. He added that the overseas price of pulp which is set by the company is not controlled by the board. "We feel that if we can't have the $80,000 in wages or benefits, then it should go to some charitable purpose in the community." But the union will not be quietly accepting the board's ruling. McPhedran said there would be a meeting in Vancouver this week of all CPU representatives from Western Canada to discuss Uie rollback. He said an appeal to federal cabinet would likely be made. . v- He indicated he did not think there would any immediate strike action. "The uni…
note: Frequency: Weekly Titled "The Sechelt Peninsula Times" from 1963-12-04 to 1967-03-01. Titled "The Peninsula Times" from 1967-03-08 to 1979-12-26. Published by Sechelt Peninsula Times Ltd. from 1963-12-04 to 1968-12-24 and from 1970-11-04 to 1971-03-10; by The Peninsula Times Ltd. from 1969-01-08 to 1970-10-28; by Powell River News Town Crier Sechelt Times Ltd. from 1971-03-17 to 1975-11-05; and by Westpres Publications Ltd. from 1975-11-12 to 1979-12-26. Dates of Publication: 1963 to 1980.
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Sechelt (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0186239
language: English
lat: 49.4716667
long: -123.763333
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Sechelt, B.C : Westpres Publications Ltd.
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source: Original Format: Sechelt Community Archives.
type: Text