Title
Interview with Richard Marston
Streaming Media
Date of Interview
9-15-2010
Duration of Audio File
Audio File #1 1:53:15
Interviewee
Richard Marston
Gender
Male
Residence
St. Agatha, Maine
Occupation/ Work History
Human Resources Manager -Senior manager of "HR" and labor relations with the unions in the 1980s and 1990s after being a low level HR staffer in 1970s
Role
Management
Mill or Principal Employer
Fraser Paper Company
Mill Location
Madawaska, Maine
Keywords
Fraser Paper Company - Madawaska Maine, Paper Industry - Maine
Abstract
Marston's wonderfully detailed account of the history of labor relations and business strategy at the mill dating from time as an intern in the 1960s through retirement after 2000.
Highlights include: (1) the Acadian worker, Anglo manager divide in the mill's history, the legacy of the 1971 strike for labor relations at the mill through the 1990s, and how management and unionized workers succeeded in establishing a cooperative relationship in the 1990s to improve work productivity and product quality.
Document Type
Interview
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 License.
Recommended Citation
Richard Marston, interview by Michael Hillard, Sept 15, 2010 Stories of Maine's Paper Plantation, Digital Maine, Maine's Economic Improvement Fund, Digital Commons, University of Southern Maine
