Western Forest Products reaches pact with United Steelworkers
VANCOUVER, BC - Western Forest Products today announced that it has reached a tentative agreement with the United Steelworkers Union on a new four year labour contract. The contract, which covers the vast majority of Western's unionized hourly workforce, includes USW Locals 1-85 and 1-1937 and the Council of USW Locals certified for certain divisions of WFP. The contract is subject to a ratification vote by the USW members, which may take several weeks to complete. Details of the tentative agreement are expected to be released during the ratification process. The Company's last contract with the USW, the Coast Master Agreement, expired on June 15, 2010.

Western Forest Products

Western is an integrated Canadian forest products company and the largest coastal British Columbia woodland operator and lumber producer with an annual available harvest of approximately 7.4 million cubic metres of timber of which approximately 7.1 million cubic metres is from Crown lands and lumber capacity in excess of 1.5 billion board feet from eight sawmills and four remanufacturing plants. Principal activities conducted by the Company include timber harvesting, reforestation, sawmilling logs into lumber and wood chips and value-added remanufacturing. Substantially all of Western's operations, employees and corporate facilities are located in the coastal region of British Columbia while its products are sold in over 25 countries worldwide.

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