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Closure Saddens Weyerhaeuser Workers at Snoqualmie, Wash., Plant.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, October, 2002
By Sara Jean Green, The Seattle Times Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Oct. 26--For at least a dozen years, workers at Weyerhaeuser's Snoqualmie wood-finishing plant have watched their numbers dwindle.
The company's announcement Tuesday that it is closing its King County operations wasn't exactly a surprise. Still, in a community that's derived much of its identity from its 100-year relationship with the timber giant, news that the last 110 or so workers there will soon lose their jobs came as a "psychological blow" to the fast-growing city of 4,600, residents said.
Since the announcement, workers say the mill's atmosphere has become charged with anger, hurt feelings and a pervasive sense of pointlessness. While employees are quick...
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