Today we did a loop to
Beaverton and back, to get Xander’s tennis racquets restrung and to Ingress a
bit. This photo was taken in quaint St
Helens, a town we’ve been trying to visit for several months.
The union hall makes me
think of the strike that has started since I’ve been off work at a neighboring
wood products facility. It will be interesting
to find out how it is impacting Weyerhaeuser tomorrow when I head back to work.
In AWPPW’s heyday, there
were 20,000 union members on the West Coast. That number has plummeted to just
about 5,000. “Unions were always a minority, but at least they were a big
minority. Now they are a small minority.”
The last time this site had
a strike was in 1978, when they set up 100-car caravan to block mill entrances
and put up a blockade that left 160 salaried workers stranded inside the mill.
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