International Paper, which supplies about 20% of all paper in the United States, said Wednesday it would close one of its two pulp machines near Wilmington, and lay off 200 workers. The cuts are the latest to hit North Carolina paper, textile, furniture and meat plants.
United Steelworkers (USW), American labour union representing workers in metallurgical industries as well as in healthcare and other service industries. The union grew out of an agreement reached in 1936 between the newly formed Committee for Industrial Organization (CIO; later the Congress of