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Article: Local 80 reaches deal with buyer of Old Town mill Union accepts Red Shield contract
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- Bangor Daily News Bangor, ME
- Article date:
- October 23, 2006
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OLD TOWN - The local Georgia-Pacific Corp. papermakers union, PACE
Local 80, voted Sunday to accept a five-year contract negotiated with
Red Shield Environmental.
Red Shield, composed of a group of private investors who intend to
develop and manage the former mill site, is slated to close Wednesday
on the purchase of the facility.
The agreement was accepted in a secret ballot by "a very large
margin," Union Vice President Dan Bird said Sunday.
Bird did not release the tallies, but said that several hundred
members participated in the vote held at the Elks Club in Old Town.
He also declined to discuss specific details of the agreement.
"There were modifications in wage rates," Bird said, "and ...