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NORPAC employees narrowly vote down union at Longview paper mill
Thursday, March 17, 2022 2:00 pm
LONGVIEW, Washington (From news reports) -- Employees at the Longview paper mill NORPAC narrowly voted against unionizing last month in the staff's first effort to organize. The National Labor Board reports of the 226 votes counted on March 1, 110 chose to unionize and 116 voted against unionization. NORPAC reports 85% of employees eligible to vote for unionization participated in the count. A NORPAC representative said this was the first time employees voted on whether to unionize at the Longview mill. The International Longshore and Warehouse Union, Local 21, filed the petition for NORPAC to vote on whether to unionize last fall.
NORPAC's unionization vote count was tallied Feb. 22; then a revised count was finished March 1 after challenges were made to some ballots, the National Labor Board reports.
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