Weyerhaeuser workers stop production, strike

By Sarah Brown
Lebanon Local

Weyerhaeuser employees went on strike at 12:01 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 13, outside all West Coast facilities, including the location in Lebanon, where a large group of workers congregated that morning with signs.
The local strikers, who are affiliated with the Springfield-based International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers Local Lodge W246 (IAM), said their wage increase for the next four years would be 7% less than the insurance rate increase…