The Nation - News from July 8, 1986

Union membership representing about 7,500 striking lumber workers voted in Portland, Ore., to reject a Weyerhaeuser Co. contract offer under which wages and benefits would have been cut by more than $4 an hour, officials of the International Woodworkers of America and Lumber, Production and Industrial Workers said. The Weyerhaeuser loggers and mill workers walked out after their contract expired June 1. Contracts covering about 23,000 employees of four other lumber companies also expired then, but those workers have remained on their jobs while negotiations continue.