DEAL WITH STEEL :: CONIFER

CONIFER member company workers to vote on new collective agreement.

Your United Steelworkers BC Interior Bargaining Committee and the Council on Northern Interior Forest Employment Relations (CONIFER) have reached a tentative four-year agreement, covering some 2,000 USW Local 1-424 and Local 1-425 members employed at sawmilling and planing operations in northern British Columbia. Your BC Interior Bargaining Committee strongly recommends that members employed by CONIFER members companies vote yes for this agreement.

Contact your local union office for location and time of upcoming ratification meetings.

Memorandum of Agreement

LOU - Apprentice Selection LOU - Conifer Seniority Retention LOU - Dunkley Seniority Retention LOU - Conifex Seniority Retention

British Columbia, Canada The United Steelworkers is bargaining with the Council on Northern Interior Forest Employment Relations (CONIFER) which is an employer association that represents forest companies in the province’s northern Interior. CONIFER was established in 1985 out of the former North Cariboo Forest Labour Relations Association, that began back in 1972. Both associations bargained with the formers IWA Canada, before the IWA joined the United Steelworkers in 2004. There are about 3,000 USW Local 1-424 and 1-425 members who work for CONIFER-affiliated companies.

Full CONIFER member companies employing union members include the following firms:

Conifex – Site #1 – Mackenzie
Conifex – Site #2 – Mackenzie
Conifex – Fort St. James
Dunkley Lumber Ltd. – Hixon
Hampton Affiliates – Babine Forest Products – Burns Lake
Lakeland Mills Ltd. – Prince George
Tolko Industries Ltd. – Soda Creek – Williams Lake
Tolko Industries Ltd. – Lakeview – Williams Lake
Tolko Industries Ltd. – Creekside – Williams Lake
Tolko Industries Ltd. – Questwood – Quesnel
West Fraser – West Fraser Planer – Williams Lake
Winton Global – Prince George Planer – Prince George
Winton Global – Hart Sawmill – Bear Lake