MAINE PUBLIC • October 13, 2023
Union employees at a Baileyville paper will go on strike starting tonight. The machinists will walk out just after midnight, followed by employees with the Service Employees International Union Sunday night and millwrights sometime next week. The three unions are at an impasse with woodland pulp over a proposal from the company to classify all employees as general workers to be trained in all job duties, eliminating classified positions such as millwright or pipefitter.