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\"\"<\/a>Displaced workers, community members and fair trade advocates held a picket on April 24th demanding that WestRock \u2014 owners of the idled Newberg, Oregon paper mill \u2014 make the property available for sale to buyers who would restart the plant.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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WestRock stopped production at the mill just weeks after buying it, putting hundreds of people out of work. \u00a0The global company with production facilities throughout the world is supposedly looking to sell the Oregon mill. \u00a0But in a bid to avoid competition, WestRock will reportedly not sell the plant to a buyer that will reopen it for production, requiring that \u201cpaper machines in the mill must be destroyed and not put back into use as a condition of sale,\u201d according to a company memo.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u201cWestRock\u2019s been buying up competitors\u2019 mills only to shut them down. \u00a0They do this to drive down supply and therefore drive up prices for the product that they are producing [at other mills they own],\u201d said Association of Western Pulp & Paper Workers (AWPPW) President Greg Pallesen. \u00a0“WestRock won’t sell the mill to any business that will re-open it as a paper mill. They’ve taken the extreme and job-killing step of setting up a sales agreement that contractually extracts from any buyer the promise not to restart the mill.”<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Joining the picket of nearly 50 people were activists from the Oregon Fair Trade Campaign, who argued that trade policies that make it easier for corporations to relocate jobs around the globe to wherever workers are the most exploited and environmental regulations are the weakest have hurt the pulp and paper industry throughout the Pacific Northwest.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u201cTime and again the actions of transnational corporations show they\u2019re not really interested in fair competition,\u201d said the Oregon Fair Trade Campaign\u2019s Russell Lum. \u00a0\u201cThey talk about \u2018free trade,’ but what they really want is to rig the rules of the global economy so that their ability to profit comes ahead of working families, healthy communities and the environment.”<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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