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LAYUP PROGRAM
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• A shoreworker gutting fish caught by the British trawler Ocean Venture found this music cassette inside a cod. The cassette was cleaned and sent to the BBC which played it on a local program. It turned out to be a tape recording by the American singer James Brown.
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LABOR LEGISLATION
occupational classifications of all employees and forward it to the union within 72 hours of that union making application for certification.
. — Replace the present 72-hour strike notice with the former 48-hour strike notice and make strike notices valid for six months instead of the present three months.
— Allow a strike or lockout to be declared during appointment of a mediator.
— Place the burden of proof on an employer that an employee has not been discharged unfairly and speed up processing of unfair labor charges against employers.
The federation also asked for changes to be made basing representation votes on the number actually voting rather than the total number eligible to vote and for amendments to ban challenges of certification in the seventh and eighth months of a
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In a separate meeting with King, representatives of independent unions, including the Pulp and Paper Workers of Canada, Canadian Aluminum Smelter and Allied Workers, and Canadian Association of Industrial, Mechanical and Allied Workers, sought:
— A mandatory representation vote on submission of an application signed by 25 percent or more of employees in place of the present 50 percent plus one.
— Outlawing of union constitutional clauses enabling an external or parent body to attach, seize or control the assets of a local union.
— Legislation to prevent any international union from placing a local in the province under trusteeship or seizing its assets if its members decide to form an independent union.
Boasting that it was "the first time in history that management has appeared at a single event with a common front, " Don Lanskail, president of the Pulp and Paper Industrial Relations Bureau, also met with King as
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chief spokesman for a 30-member coordinating committee representing the Employers Council of B.C., Canadian Manufacturers Association, Board of Trade and Chamber of Commerce.
Understandably, since it was enacted to serve their interests, the employers argued for retention of the Trade Unions Act and amendments to return it to its original concept in 1959. Effect of such amendments would be to impose further curbs on picketing by barring pickets at branch or other operations of companies hit by a strike in one operation.
Apart from suggesting that its chairman should not be directly connected with government, the committee contended that the present Labor Relations Board is properly consitituted, since "it is important to maintain a distinction between the government and the board to maintain both the reality and appearance of independence."
The committee strenuously objected to any provincial legislation on the federal pattern allowing unions to reopen contracts for negotiations on technological changes affecting their members, with the right to strike if negotiations fail.
"It is our inescapable conclusion that change must take place directly as the technology is available without hindrance, delay or objection," it declared, softening the harshness of this statement with an expressed readiness to assist in formulating "reasonable legislation covering the effects of change."
UFAWU MEETINGS
SPECIAL MEETING
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JOINT MEETINGS
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THURSDAY, MAY 3 8 p.m. STEVESTON COMMUNITY CENTRE
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rules that he learned the "small" boat fleet in Alaska, at report-back meeting in the various ports, had voted to overturn the Petersburg conference decisions and revert to the original Petersburg proposal of half day layup for every dav fishing.
The weakness in the Petersburg proposal, and even the accepted compromise to a lesser extent, as pointed out by the Canadian delegation, was that there was no effective means of policing such a program.
Major strength of the original program is that every vessel takes a standard eight-day tieup and any deviation from this is easy to detect under scrutiny of the entire fishing fleet.
With vessels coming and going at various intervals and laying up for various periods of time, it becomes extremely difficult, if not impossible, for the fleet to keep track of the movements of individual vessels, unless fishermen are prepared to hire patrolmen to cover every plant and every point of landing for halibut in Alaska.
Canadian longliners felt that although the two-thirds day layup for every day proposal would be difficult to police, they were prepared to accept this compromise for one year to see how it worked.
Informed of the changes in the Alaskan fishermen's position, representatives of the UFAWU, B.C. Vessel Owners Association and Prince Rupert Deep Sea Fishermen's Union attended a meeting in Vancouver April 5 to assess their position. The meeting viewed the changes as an attempt by Alaskan fishermen to redistribute the halibut catch in their favor, to the detriment of the Canadian fleet, rather than to establish a workable curtailment program which Alaska could live with.
Many longline vessels in Alaska  operating under the
Petersburg proposal are of such a size as to be in the same class as larger longliners fishing out of Canadian ports and operating on the standard eight-day plan, and non-observance of the compromise layup plan as worked out at Petersburg or the standard plan contributes to breaking down the program.
The Canadian delegation was particularly disturbed about the casual attitude toward informing it of the changed Alaska position.
On March 22, Chris Christiansen, secretary of Petersburg Fishermen's Union, had written to Nordahl indicating that the change was effective, telling him, "You can judge for yourself about informing the Canadians what the situation is up here in Alaska."
The committee's recommendation was that it turn the program over to the International Pacific Halibut Commission with a statement that it was no longer in a position to enforce a voluntary program and that if any layup were to be observed, it would have to be administered by the commission.
In meetings of fishermen, the consensus was that althosugh they disagreed with the Petersburg plan and were critical of the method in which they were informed of the change in the Alaska fishermen's position, they were apprehensive about a program administered by the commission and were concerned about the possible loss of a program which has taken years to build up.
They have, therefore, decided through their various organizations to continue with the program for the time being, keeping a close watch on the situation in Alaska, to attempt to struggle along with the program for this coming season, and to examine the results of this year's curtailment program at next year's conference in Seattle.
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THE FISHERMAN — APRIL 19, 1973/7