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i*:** oe re 4 | PS i 15 Stirs Uproar With the Canada Pension | The same applies to automo- Plan coming into effect Jan. |bile-industry feeder plants and 1, the question is what will |such employers as Massey-Fer- happen to existing pension |guson and de Havilland Air? schemes. This story tells jcraft, all adding up to about 85° how the problem is being | per cent of the union's member- tackled across the country. (ship. Canada's largest union, the By JOHN LeBLANC ard * pag United here 'workers of America whic Canadian Press Staff Writer |rayors stacking in principle, The Canada Pension Plan is coming upon the country amid a hodge-podge of controversy, widely-varying patterns for fit- ting it into existing retirement schemes. ments into the plan looms up, clouds some with confusion, But for many others, a Cross- Canada Survey by The Cana-| dian Press shows, there will be|the summer. a smooth meshing of the gears | i between the new creation and| Workers negotiated a stacking present arrangements for gov-| jhas a similar arrangement with International Harvester. Its contract with the biggest basic steel producer --Steel Co. of uncertainty, delayed action and|Canada -- calls for temporary automatic stacking of the CPP until negotiations open next summer. 'As the Jan. 1 start of pay-|UP FOR NEGOTIATION "It recently negotiated an im- the arrangements for hundreds proved private plan plus stack- of thousands of workers remain |ing of the Canada Pension. unsettled. Official wrangling|with Dominion Steel and Coal Corp., largest steel employer in |the Maritimes. Pensions will be negotiated with Algoma Steel in The United Packinghouse |deal with Swift, but Canada Packers, largest in the field, is ernment and private employ-|: i i ees. Much of this, however, i egrating over the union's be temporary and subject to| Protest. The union says this will later adjustment. save the company $350,000 a Frank Bodie, secretary-treas- aor j urer of the Alberta Federation ,, wontreal based Aik Coset pear to probably sums it UP| it, the Canada Pension and by ian he says: ithe Quebec Pension Plan, I thought there would be | adopted independently by Que- more confusion than there ac-| pec for all workers in that prov- tually is." lince but identical to the Canada The acrimony, and a g00d/plan. Air Canada's system deal of the confusion, is cen-| amounts, in effect, to a modi- tred in Ontario, where the pro-| fied form of stacking. jvincial government has collided| |arge employers that have head-on with some of the major | gone in for integration include municipal bodies over whether | International Nickel Co. of Can- the Canada Pension is to belada, whose contract with the "stacked" -- added to existing |steelworkers already calls for municipal plans -- or simply|hefty non - contributory pen- integrated with them without! sions: the Alberta Wheat Pool, raising payments. |Consolidated Mining and Smelt- ' 'ani ling Co., Banque Provinciale in | PROVINCE INSISTS | Quebec, the Royal Bank of Can- The cabinet has issued anjzqq and MacMillan, Bloedel edict that the municipalities} 4nq Powell River Ltd., the big must integrate, as it is doing) wood products concern on the for its own employees. The! west Coast. councils of Metropolitan Tor-| Generally, it appears that the onto, Hamilton and Oshawa) pensions question will be a live have voted to stack. Premier |jcsye in union-company negotia- ROUND OR SQUARE END RUMP ROAST. NAME BRANDS, Siveet Piak/ed. COTTAGE ROLLS WE ALSO HAVE AN Cxctting Selection of- CHOICE GRADE A" TURKEYS 6 014185, CHOICE GRADER DUCKS, 9518S, GEESE 3114 18S. CHICKENS Sn Tun, coven vausy Rindjoss BACON "vs QG¢ SHorsy's aL. Seer BoLOChAsE OF GX, Sheed Assorted Today (Tues. Open "Til 6 p.m. © Wed. & Thurs. 9:30 P.M. Fri. Til 6:00 Closed All Dey Seturday hes ' ART LINKLETTER ENCYCLOPEDIA | yor Bays 9 Girls bo ecTion Q' secrigns "Analible ad 69+ Es CRISP EDC. 90 LBS. they integrate even if he has to get retroactive legislation at the {next legislature session. Even within Metro, the legis- jgot overruled by the council. lators are split. The police com- mission wanted to integrate. So did the Metro executive, but it Robarts says he will see that|tions in 1966. CAUSES FUSS | The debate has spilled over jinto the academic field and pro- | duced at least one rumpus. |About 100 faculty members of \the University of Western On- |tario in London held an emer- |Toronto city's board of control) gency meeting to protest the |has recommended stacking. In-| university's decision to inte- |dividual municipalities within|grate. They want pensions |Metro are going both ways. The Ontario government, lwhich contends employees and municipalities cannot afford the extra cost of double pensions, is the only provincial adminis- tration to have laid down the law to its junior governments in such firm tones. jis to some form of integration land municipalities, with the jlatter doing it from choice. However, not all the provinces have made up their minds. The federal government, father of |the plan and the country's larg- est employer with 190,000 on the payroll, is giving a lead to integration and plans to keep an individual's total payments and benefits about unchanged. SPLIT CONTRIBUTIONS The Canada Pension Plan payments amount to 3.6 per cent of a. worker's salary be- tween $600 and $5,000, with each paying half. In stacking, the amount paid into a private plan jis in addition to the payments \to the government. For integra- tion, the private plan payments are reduced by all or part of the CPP premiums. The com- bined benefit payments vary accordingly. In private business and in- dustry, there is a jigsaw of pro- posals, generally tending to- ward integration by the larger employees unless union con- tracts dictate otherwise. Small companies appear to favor stacking, according to a survey by the Canadian Life Insurance Association. The Canadian Labor Congress says it sees no clear pattern in favor of either system among its union affiliates. As an em- ployer, the congress itself is stacking the Canada Pension on lits own private plan for its 100- |odd employees. | The country's two largest em- |ployers of labor outside govern ment, the two transcontinental railways, have taken different tacks and spokesmen for rail- way brotherhoods say there is considerable confusion among their members over pension |plans. CNR TO STACK Elsewhere, the general trend lor merger among provinces istacked pending a review. Around the provinces, six have reached firm decisions on dealing with their own employ- ees. Quebec, with its own plan, is integrating its existing pri- vate system with it, with con- tributions staying at the same level. Ontario, Manitoba, Sask- atchewan and Alberta are inte- grating. The Manitoba plan is geared to a formula which by 1976 will produce for a $6,000-a-year em ployee a pension of $5,150 in- cluding the CPP payments with out increasing the civil serv- ants' payments. Under the exe isting setup it would be $4,200. Nova Scotia announced it is "co-ordinating" its pensions for civil servants and teachers with lthe Canada. Pension and that \benefits will be increased. On the non - federal part of the I scheme, female employees will |pay in less than males. |SEVERAL UNDECIDED | Newfoundland has not |reached a decision, Neither has Prince Edward Island but Pro- vincial Treasurer Alban Farmer says there is a strong possibility of integration. New Brunswick has disclosed only \that, until a final decision is made, provincial employees will not contribute more than now. In British Columbia, no decl- sion has been announced but in- formation is that the province and the municipalities probably will integrate, with employee contributions and benefits stay- ing as at present. The B.C, government operates the muni- cipalities' plans, so they auto- matically go along with it. While more of an option is ex- tended in other provinces--On- jtario excepted--the great pre- lponderance of municipalities \that so far have reached deci- sions are opting for integration. Outstanding exception is Que- bec City, which is going for straight stacking with employ- ees contributing the new plan's j1.8 per cent of salary up to | $5,000 on top of the five per lcent they now pay. Montreal, however, is integrating. Outside of the two major On- FLORIDA GROWN Cris 'ole ltario dissidents .--Metro Tor- endev CAN. N°\GRADE The government-owned Cana-|onto and Hamilton -- Ontario " +e, -, dian National has announced aj municipalities generally are go- = * stacked package for employees jing along with integration. ¢ maser ond covered by union contracts. and|Mayor John Wheelton_of Wind- tre P | integration for non - contract|sor says the city is not op- site on & oe workers. The Canadian Pacific posed to stacking but considers SE tahre ene has a 'co - ordinated" plan,|provincial pensions regulations ; 4 " which appears to consist of}do not allow it ont. NOI Grade, Brushed COOKING t partial stacking Non-operating! tn the west, Moose Jaw, 10.8 Mash BAG employees now are in negotia-isask., is negotiating with its tions for agreements that would! civic employees' union and con: include pensions. tributions and benefits may be SPECIALS EFFECTIVE MLL CLOSING FRIDAY, DEC. 315T. WE RESERVE TRERIGHT TO LIMIT QUANTINES, TO REASOWABLS PAHILY REQUIREMENTS... SMOKED PICHICS, DINNERS SMOKED HAMS EC. A/ Afpechily Frited) Meets "er B9* EMEESE _ Glivis «79° BORoENS Gris 59° ai=85' The big automobile industry,jboosted up slightly from lin its contracts with the United | straight integration. |Auto Workers (CLC), has a4) Edmonton city employees |form of stacking built into eX-|have won a temporary nine- listing contracts. Besides a ba-|month delay from the city pend- |sic pension, there is a supple-|ing an actuarial study. Hector mentary pension designed to fill! McDonald, president of. the a social security gap, both non-|Civic Employees Federation contributory. Part of the supple-|said it then may ask the city lmentary section could be re-|to stack, Meanwhile, things will Wao" rem Bo Ce . Iplaced by the CBP, operate on an integrated basis. a Woevoss Fs FFGaGensee = Ld *