ACTG 2010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Shell Canada, Canfor, Stave Lake
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Canfor and the transformation of b. c. "s forest industry: Open communication resolves labour matters quickly (p. 223: a long time ago, people had suddenly stopped working at stave lake cedar (operation/ plant) and bentley didn"t have the slightest clue as to why (p. 223) After long discussion reached agreement and everything was settled (p. 224) He mentions that he was most involved with the crew at a local mill: eburne, local 1-217 of the. Iwa (iwa= forest industry pension plan google) (p. 224: when syd thompson became president of the local mill the workplace/ environment changed i. e. syd was hostile, aggressive, loud, argumentative, combative approach, etc Basically an obnoxious asshole who thought he was a hotshot". Reports regarding the union"s plant chair at eburne began turning up following. Worker aka tallyman (person who counted lumber as it moved down chain) was seen drinking and coming back to work and sleeping on the job.