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Tensions rise between striking workers and management at Canadian paper millConcerned for their well-being, sixty administrators at a paper mill in the Canadian province of News Brunswick were forced to spend the night at work. Anywhere from 400 to 600 workers are blocking the exits to a mill owned by UPM Miramichi and refusing to let anyone leave. Represented by the Communication Energy and Paperworkers Union, have been on strike since December when the the company announced it was going to close a section of the mill. On Monday, UPM announced the closed section of the mill was going to be torn down. The workers gathered on Tuesdaydefying a injunction that says no more than six picketers can gather at each gate. Up until the announcement they had respected the injunction. Canada | CEPU - Canada | Posted 02/17/2005 - 10:08am | 884 reads
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