OTHER NEWS - Sept. 14, 1992

Judge Rules in Favor of United Paperworkers: A National Labor Relations Board judge has ordered International Paper Co. to pay as much as $40 million in lost wages to 1,200 union members who were locked out of the company’s Mobile, Ala., mill in 1987. Officials of the United Paperworkers International Union said the decision was the largest award ever granted the union. The dispute stemmed from an IP decision to lock employees out of its Mobile mill during a contract disagreement in March, 1987. The company hired replacement workers during the lockout but allowed union members back in after they signed a five-year contract. International Paper, based in Purchase, N.Y., plans to challenge the ruling before the full NLRB.