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26 July, 2005
US affiliates United Steelworkers (USWA) and PACE will conduct concurrent conventions next week in which PACE members will vote on a merger agreement with the USWA. But continuing the unions’ two-year-old joint strategic pact developed to take up political and strategic social issues, USWA and PACE targeted 60 Weyerhaeuser forest products worksites last week in the US and Canada with the union message. PACE and the USWA are the ranking one, two North American unions representing Weyerhaeuser workers in forestry, solid wood products, pulp, paper and paperboard worksites. “We are stronger as workers when we work together, and we are demonstrating that strength to (Weyerhaeuser),” said Gerald Johnston, PACE Regional Vice President and Weyerhaeuser Union Council Chairman.