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CHEK TV fonds Strikes and lockouts--British Columbia
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[Barber strikes]

News item. Charles Barber hopes to bring together a group of Victoria business people and union members for a seminar at UVic this fall. The purpose is to find better systems of bargaining than by striking, which Barber terms "obsolete".

[B.C. Ferry strike]

News item. B.C. Ferry workers have been without a contract since 01-July-1975. Union spokesman says that the problem is getting the BC Ferries management board back to the bargaining table. He singles out Dan Gallagher who has apparently been to the Labour Relations Board to try to get a strike vote by the Ferries employees declared illegal. Transportation Minister Jack Davis has "buried his head in the sand" over the whole issue, says union spokesman.

[BCFP -- IWA back]

News item. Interview, and shots of logs being lifting from booming grounds into a barker at BC Forest Products's Sooke Division.

[BCGEU strike]

News item. Strike by liquor store employees. Mike Davison of GERB and BCGEU General Secretary John Fryer are interviewed. Davison announces that it is his intention, along with management and other members of the review board, to reassess GERB's final offer and come back with a renewed position later that day. Fryer says that there will be no strike as long as negotiations are proceeding.

[Building Trades Association]

News item. Building Trades Association spokesman says the various unions must consolidate their grievances and come to some sort of agreement before any attempt can be made by the association to reach a province-wide decision. He says two-year contracts lead to nothing but more strikes and harassment.

[Chamber Barber]

News item. NDP MLA Charles Barber is asked by reporters how much support he thinks he can get from both labour and management in the role of negotiator. He says: "Strikes and lockouts are products of the 19th century . . . and the line of thinking about them now won't serve any purpose in the 21st century." He has proposed to the Labour Council and the Chamber of Commerce that both sides get together and use some "original thinking."

[CHEK-TV news film -- Bennett, hospital]

Stock shots. 1. Jean Chretien and other politicians make speeches. 2. Unidentified interview. 3. Construction project. 4. Royal Jubilee Hospital -- nurses, exteriors. 5. Victoria General Hospital, Northern Component -- drawings and models. 6. Dr. D.R. Carlow -- Medical Director. 7. [Jim Nielsen?] 8. Construction site prior to start. 9. Ribbon cutting ceremony. 10. Mount Tolmie Hospital. 11. Juan de Fuca Hospital. 12. Labour unrest. 13. Premier W.R. Bennett -- cabinet swearing-in ceremony. 14. Dave Barrett. 15. W.R. Bennett in track suit, jogging at a school. 16. W.R. Bennett in office. 17. Provincial government newsletter. 18. Different shots of W.R. Bennett -- indoors and outdoors.

[Construction trades strike]

News item. Construction workers have left their job sites and joined the picket lines. Placard reads: "Don't undersell your skills -- join us in the building trades." The council for building trades will supply workers for school and hospital construction, while the construction company owners will try to have the lockout lifted.

[Duncan demonstration]

News item. IWA is on strike for better wages and working conditions. CUPE Local 606 supports the IWA. Rally includes elementary school children. Placards read: "Get back to the bargaining table"; "Why stay if you don't like the pay?"; "Help the needy not the greedy". CUPE's support of the IWA is keeping children out of school -- some parents object.

[Ferry action]

News item. Strike is being staged by members of the Ferry and Marine Workers Union, the CLC, and the BC Federation of Labour. Negotiations have been stalled since 01-July-1977, so employees have been without a contract since then. Labour Minister Allen Williams calls the walkout "irresponsible" and says employees could still receive pay if they agreed to continue working while negotiations continued through "the railways and ferries bargaining association." The B.C. government has declared the strike illegal, and threatens to fine strikers and their union if they continue to defy the back-to-work order. A union spokeswoman comments on how long the strike could last. Other ferry service and local airlines are doing a booming business with extra sailings and flights.

[Ferry strike]

News item. A return to work injunction is brought against the strikers by order of the Lieutenant-Govenor in council, and the decision of the Labour Relations Board, forcing the union to give notice that the strike is suspended. Union members went voted against the recommendations of the executive, so they still do not have a contract.

[ICBC on strike]

News item. ICBC strike. Brief interview with a shop steward. Other background footage shows pickets and placards -- e.g., "This firm is one of Strachans' strike-breakers", referring to use of non-union workers by ICBC management.

[IWA -- PPWC -- BCFP]

News item. The Pulp and Paper Workers of Canada (PPWC), Local 2, pickets the B.C. Forest Products mill on Gorge Road, forcing management to close the mill. IWA members are upset, as the Henry Hutchins report on the forest industry is to be released in three days. IWA members want to return to work if the terms of the report are satisfactory. Even so, the PPWC pickets will be honoured by IWA members, and this means no unemployment insurance.

[Skelly forest labour]

News item. Interview with Bob Skelly, NDP MLA. He says Port Alberni and other communities like Tahsis, which are totally dependent upon the forest industry, will be hard hit by the IWA strike. The union membership, unfortunately, will not accept the Minister of Labour's recommendations. Skelly sums up as follows: "They have the perfect right to strike. The unfortunate part is that it's taking place in an economic slump where the lumber industry is particularly affected."