more_cowbell
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The mills employ fewer people now, though looks like the present company that owns the timber, likes to clear instead of selective cut then replant with reprod that grows quick but is garbage.No, I'm not. You must have been playing Rip Van Winkle.
Sure, they employed people, and made bigger profits when Reaganomics cut every worker $2 an hour.
But yes, these days the lumber industry in NE Oregon looks more like an 80s Bruce Springsteen song about jobs not coming back.
Except I guess Bruce went to work in construction and got his union card.
You should also appreciate that since the 1980s there are a lot more laws on the books protecting employee rights, so unions may not be as important as they were back in the "good old days".