Equal pay, seniority, union aim
Last week's convention of the United Fishermen and Allied Workers Union set the union's sights on winning equal pay and seniority rights for women shore-workers in the industry.
Contending that wage inequalities adversely affect men as well as women in the industry—"women workers are not a threat to men, but cheap labor is" — a resolution submitted by Steveston Shore-workers Local and approved by the convention urged that proposals for equal pay and conditions be given "prime consideration" in the next round of bargaining.
The resolution suggested that factors helping to perpetuate disparities include the seasonal nature of the fishing industry and "package settlements" containing percentage increases for all employees.
Fishing companies are interested in replacing men with women only because of wage and other inequalities, the report said. And a growing differential in wage rates encourages this process.
Together with a fight for equal pay, "action must be taken simultaneously to discard the present system of seniority and to establish a seniority list based on term of emplyment in each job classification, making no mention of whether the worker is man or woman."
Earlier, in their report to the convention, UFAWU officers had pointed critically to wage gaps which have become "firmly implanted" in sections of the industry.
Although the UFAWU has long recognized the injustices suffered by women workers, the officers' report stated, no full scale membership fight to rectify the situation has yet been mounted.
The report urged more action on the legislative front to win changes in the existing Human Rights Act. The act now "lacks teeth and must be made meaningful and enforceable."
More importantly, union members as a whole must be mobilized "to correct injustices and disparities imposed on women."
Improved job protection for men would be an indirect effect of standardized wage scales and working conditions, according to the report.
At the same time, there must be firm guarantees that women would be called in to work on the basis of seniority.
U.S. salmon pack higher
SEATTLE — Preliminary estimates of the 1971 Washington and Oregon canned salmon pack indicate a total pack of 615,550 cases of 48 one-pound cans apiece, up 357,900 cases or 139 percent from 1970, according to the U.S. commerce department.
Dominating the 1971 pack was Puget Sound sockeye which accounted for 251,483 cases or 41 percent of the total, up 50 percent over the 1967 cycle year pack.
The Puget Sound pink pack of 146,800 cases last year was slightly less than double the 1969 pack of 75,857 cases.
The commerce department also reports increased Alaska shrimp production last year of 94 million pounds, up from 74 million pounds in 1970 and maintaining a steady upward trend which began in 1964.
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UFA WU organizes new Campbell River plant
• A new roe operation in Campbell River owned by West Isle Fisheries Ltd. has been organized by the UFAWU. After initial organization work by charge hand Sarah Lynse, wife of UFAWU Campbell River Local secretary Norman Lysne, UFAWU shore-worker organizer Helen O'Shaughnessy and retired shoreworker organizer Mickey Beagle went to Campbell River last week to hold
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