"It tears the heart right out of you": Memories of Striker Replacement at International Paper Company in De Pere, Wisconsin, 1987 88 |
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Authors: | Minchin Timothy J |
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Institution: | La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia |
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Abstract: | In the summer of 1987, more than 370 workers at Nicolet PaperCompany in De Pere, Wisconsin, walked out on strike after refusingto agree to a wide range of concessions demanded by InternationalPaper Company (IP), Nicolet's parent company. Within a few weeks,however, IP had permanently replaced the strikers, a tacticthat became increasingly common in the 1980s. The author usesoral history interviews to provide a valuable, unique insightinto the effects of the permanent replacement tactic, whichbitterly divided the small community and left workers with psychologicalscars that were all too apparent more than a decade later. Asthe Nicolet workers were part of a broader showdown betweenIP and the United Paperworkers' International Union, the articlealso helps to illuminate the history of a major labor disputeof the 1980s. |
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