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"wrong to think we'll trade timber jobs for any jobs" and said the annual guaranteed harvest needs to be much lager than 1.5 billion board feet.

The National Lumber & Building Material Dealers Association, National Association of Home Builders, American Forest and Paper Association, United Brotherhood of Carpenters & Joiners of America and Kitchen Cabinet Manufacturers Association were among those calling upon President Clinton to help resolve the impasse over timber supplies from federal forests in the West Summit decisions will affea global environment as well as U.S. forest interests, the Forest Products Society said, asking for a broad discussion of envirorunental issues.

The Summit was expected to show if Babbift's proposed plan for managing federal lands agrees with that of the Clinton Adminisration. Proposing elimination of public land subsi dies, development of strategies to preserve critical habitats before species are endangered and management of ecosystems, not resources, Babbitt said, "We will find a correct batance between timber harvests and integrity of Oe ecosvstem."

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Clerks Union Sues Ernst

Ernst Home Centers Inc., Seattle, Wa., is charged with allegedly failing to fully compensate employees for their work in a class action suit filed by United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 1001.

Responding to charges that hourly employees were forced to work before and after their shifts and participate in company training programs without pay in violation of state labor law, Ernst spokesman Monty Reese said the company bas "a very strict policy" forbidding off-the-clock work. "If we were to find an employee worked some time and was not paid, we would certainly compensate them. But no one has notified us of any specific cases up until this point, so it's difficult for me to respond."

Negotiations between the union and Ernst for a three year collective bargaining agreement to replace a contract that expired in November were rccessed in early March with no date set for resuming them. Emst is due to stand trial before an administrative law judge in August on unfair labor practice charges brought by Local 1001.

They have been cited for refusing to bargain, bargaining directly with employees over back-wage claims and unlawfully filing a defamation suit against the union.

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Siding and soffit will continue to be the fastest growing extrusion market, with polyvinyl chloride use increasing 57o annually due to a rebound in construction expenditures and the popularity of vinyl siding among contftrtors, a Freedonia Group, Inc. market report predicts.

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