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Coastal forest companies say they can impose new cost-saving work and pay conditions on their employees in the absence of a new negotiated contract.

The union that represents workers at their mills, the Industrial, Wood & Allied Workers of Canada, says they can't, and about 6,000 members went on strike Friday to demonstrate their resolve.

But late in the day the B.C. Labour Relations Board ruled that companies can, indeed, impose new terms on workers without a contract. And now all hell is about to break loose.

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[ 24 November 2003: Message edited by: robbie_dee ]