By lan Nobie
News Reporter

VANCOUVER
Shipyards workers at the
company’s Pemberton
site have accepted a
mediator’s offer on a
contract that extends to
Dec. 31, 1999.

The union voted 268-66
Monday ‘n favor of the
retroactive deal after defeating
a slighdy less generous pack-
age 206-157 in January.

Monday’s vote marked the
fifth time union members had
been polled on a potential deal
with their employer.

Vancouver Shipyards indus-
trial relations manager Ian
Lewis said he hopes the deal
means it will be business as

fifth package
to go to vote

usual at the ship-building and
repair site. “I'm assuming now
that there is labor peace our
customers will stert to put
their vessels back in the yard,”
he said Tuesdav. “As cus-
tomers return that will increase
our manpower.”

Said Marine anal
Shipbuilders Local 506 presi-
dent Bob Eaton: “Evervone is
looking forward to getting
back to work.”

During the negotiations,
the unions were able to get
Vancouver Shipyards to back
down on a demand members
work a schedule that entailed

working weekends at the

far $25.08 rate

ble time. Also, some workers

would get days off midweck

instead of the weekend, when

many members want to spend
their tamilies.

called for a retroactive 30-cent-
an-hour hike to the welfare and
pension plan Nov. 1, 1996;
40-cent an-hour hike on Nov.
1, 1997; and a 50-cent incr:
Nov, 1, 1998. The union wit
decide on the split berween
wages and the welfare and pen-
sion plans on the last two hikes.
The deal is a dime an hour
sweeter after Nov, 1, 1997 than
a deal rejected Jan. 15.

With the Pemberton site
strife settled, negotiations for
the company’s Vancouver
Drydock site and its five
unions loom.

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