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16 July, 2005
UPM Kymmene, one for world’s leading papermakers, is causing job loss and social destruction in its homeland—Finland—as well as in Canada. Last week, two 24-hour strikes shut production at both the firm’s wood operations and papermaking mills in Finland. A strike on 4 November by 7,500 paperworkers called by ICEM affiliate Paperiliitto and one two days earlier by 3,500 woodworkers was caused by UPM’s decision to retrench 672 jobs in the Finnish woodworking sector by closure of three operations and production curtailments at another two. Paperiliitto is also battling UPM’s hard wage and other talks in the paper sector.