Nippon
Paper Industries USA union workers approved a six-year contract this week,
averting a possible strike.
The
agreement restores the $3 per hour that was cut from workers' wages in a
contract Nippon imposed in March - one that prompted a five-day strike - and
freezes wages at pre-strike levels for the foreseeable future, Darrel Reetz,
vice president of Association of Western Pulp & Paper Workers Local 155,
said Thursday.
Nippon
employees had not had a wage increase since they received a 75-cents-an-hour
increase in 2010, Reetz said.
