The Stories Project: Oregon Livelihoods Traded Away

	John Hilkey Residence: Grants Pass, OR Occupation: Union field representative in the Coos Bay area Affiliations: Woodworkers District W1 from the International Association of Machinists (IAM)
Snapshots "They [free trade agreements] are beneficial to the businesses not beneficial to the American worker. The bottom line is that when they passed those trade acts they shipped our jobs overseas. They shipped our jobs overseas and then their Band-Aid was to try and retrain our people."

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