Interview with Richard Marston

Authors

Michael G. Hillard PhD, University of Southern MaineFollow

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Date of Interview

9-15-2010

Duration of Audio File

01:53:15

Interviewee

Richard Marston

Gender

Male

Description

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.

Birth Place

Andover, Maine

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

Governor Kenneth Curtis, Augusta, Maine

Mill Location

Madawaska, Maine

Keywords

Fraser Paper, Paper Industry - Maine, Labor Unions- Paper Industry, Paper Mill Strike - 1971

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.

Recommended Citation

Hillard, Michael G. PhD, "Interview with Richard Marston" (2010). Fraser Paper Company. 12.
https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/fraser-paper-company/12