Title
Date of Interview
3-4-2003
Duration of Audio File
00:30:08
Interviewee
Gary Cove
Age
In his fifties at time of interview
Gender
Male
Occupation/ Work History
Union official (international business representative agent), former paperworker and local union leader.
Role
Union
Mill or Principal Employer
United Paperworkers International Union UPIU
Mill Location
Westbrook, Maine 04092
Keywords
Paper mills, Paperworkers' Union, Labor History, S.D.Warren, 1980s, labor relations
Abstract
Cook was a union official for Maine and New Hampshire with the United Paperworkers International Union (UPIU) from 1975 - 2000s. His first role was as an International Representative (business agent for many union locals) and later a regional Vice President of the UPIU. Before 1975 he worked as a paper worker at the International Paper Plant in Jay, Maine. Serviced UPIU Local 1069 at S.D. Warren, Westbrook in 1980s and 1990s.
Document Type
Interview
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Recommended Citation
Gary Cove, interview by Michael Hillard, March 4, 2003, Stories of Maine's Paper Plantation, Digital Maine, Maine's Economic Improvement Fund, Digital Commons, University of Southern Maine
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Labor History Commons, Oral History Commons, Social History Commons, Unions Commons, United States History Commons
Comments
Interview focuses on his perspective on Local 1069, and how workers at Warren and two other Maine mills owned by Scott resisted Scott Paper's Jointness initiative. Jointness was part of a major labor relations movement in the 1980s to reorganize work based on "teams."