More than 100 Nippon union workers walked off the job this
morning over stalled contract talks, a top union official said. Greg Pallesen,
vice president of the Association of Western Pulp and Paper
Workers, said about
130 workers were to begin walking off the job at 11 a.m. and that informational
pickets will be set up.
Pallesen served company officials with a strike notice
earlier this morning, he said. Workers were still streaming out of the plant at
the base of Ediz Hook at 11:15 a.m.“We’ll take whatever action we need to do and go from there,” Pallesen told Peninsula Daily News.
Hourly workers at the mill are members of of AWPPW Local 155.
They have been in contract talks with Nippon for 22 months. Without union consent, Nippon on Monday imposed a contract that members had already rejected.
