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23 AUGUST 2010 - Steelworkers Ratify Agreement With Western Forest Products

BURNABY, BC - United Steelworkers (USW) members have ratified a four-year collective agreement with Western Forest Products. The agreement, retroactive to June 15, 2010, covers some 2,400 Local 1-1937 and 1-85 members at sawmilling and woodlands operations on Vancouver Island, the Mainland Coast and the Haida Gwaii. The agreement provides two-per-cent wage increases in the third and fourth years and new job security provisions in the event of permanent partial closures. All unionized WFP and unionized contractors operations will remain in the USW. The company will grant the union access to non-union worksites for the purposes of organizing. ... more

23 AUGUST 2010 - Out Front This Week

ONTARIO LABOUR RALLIES AGAINST SCABS IN BRANTFORD • TOLKO TO TAKE DOWNTIME AT STUD MILLS ... more

16 AUGUST 2010 – Silviculture Workers Allege Abuse at BC Timber Sales Site

BURNABY, BC – Workers employed by part of the province of British Columbia’s flagship industry – the forest industry – have alleged that their employer, a silviculture contractor working on BC Timber Sales site, has abused them in several shocking ways. The majority of the workers, recent immigrants to Canada from the Republic of the Congo and Burundi, were working for Surrey, BC-based Khaira Enterprises at a silviculture work camp situated at Bluewater Creek, about 40 kilometers west of Golden, when government employees went into investigate the squalid conditions. Following a tip to the BC Federation of Labour and subsequent interviews with the former employees of Khaira Enterprises, workers allege that they were victims of workplace racism and death threats.... more