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Archive Home > 2006 > September > 04 > Union members gather for Labor Day tradition

Union members gather for Labor Day tradition

Event brings attention to issues facing region's workers

By Anna Sowa / The Bulletin
September 4, 2006

When Alison Hamway moved to Central Oregon in 1992, she said Bend was still a mill town, with millworkers represented by mill unions.

From the time mills unionized in the 1940s to when they started to close decades later, union members and workers united to hold an annual Labor Day picnic to....

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