The Stories Project: Oregon Livelihoods Traded Away

Tony Mims Residence: Portland, OR Occupation: worked at Freightliner truck manufacturing plant on Swan Island Affiliations: Machinists Union

Snapshots "What we see and what the people are hearing currently is that Freightliner is losing eight-hundred people, but then you have to multiply that by three or four to get the overall effect. It's... a snowball, a domino effect that affects people that make parts for us, and... if we're not making the cabs in the trucks people that make beds and particles for our trucks, you know, everybody's losing." "Oh, they [Freightliner] weren't hurting as far as money. They made a lot of money here, they did well. But, you think, you know the pot, they want the pot to be bigger, they get greedier, the corporate hands wanna make more money and so, sure we obviously beyond a reasonable doubt that they taken advantage of, uh, saving a buck ...on the backs of the workers and the working class families."

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