Title
Interview with Dan Parks
Streaming Media
Date of Interview
6-12-2001
Duration of Audio File
Audio file #1 00:57:33; Audio file #2 00:57:45; Audio file #3 00:57:27; Audio file #4 00:07:14
Interviewee
Dan Parks
Age
Born approximately 1946; age 55 or 56 at time of interview
Gender
Male
Birth Place
Portland, Maine
Residence
Portland, Maine
Occupation/ Work History
Paper mill worker in finishing department, union president
Role
Union
Mill or Principal Employer
S. D. Warren
Mill Location
Westbrook, Maine 04092
Keywords
Paper mills - Maine, Sappi Paper - History, S.D.Warren - Maine, U.S. labor relations, unionization, gender
Abstract
Parks began working at S.D. Warren in early 1960s after other factory jobs. He became a union leader after mill unionized in 1967, including a brief stint as President of United Paperworkers International Union (UPIU) Local 1069.
Document Type
Interview
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 License.
Recommended Citation
Dan Parks, interview by Michael Hillard, June 12, 2001, Stories of Maine's Paper Plantation, Digital Maine, Maine's Economic Improvement Fund, Digital Commons, University of Southern Maine
Dan Parks 6-12-01 (2).mp3 (54139 kB)
Dan Parks 6-12-01 (3).mp3 (53866 kB)
Dan Parks 6-12-01 (4).mp3 (6787 kB)
Comments
Discusses early career at mill, union involvement and strikes. Details favoritism and gender discrimination in mill before unionization. Tells story of four women who led rebellion over discrimination in seniority at the time of unionization, and has detailed recollections of the 1967 successful vote for unionization. Describes later strikes and Scott's "Jointness" initiative to reorganize work along team lines in 1980s and 1990s.