Although the company had recently recorded near-record profits, it demanded wage givebacks, high monthly payments for health and other insurance, an end to double-time pay for work on Sundays, and the elimination of all holidays (including Christmas).
[1] But within a month of the start of the strike in June 1987, Kellman had radicalized and energized the factory workers and was building a successful "class-based social movement.
"[2] The strike by IP's 1,200 workers in Jay generated international attention and provoked introduction of a bill in Congress to ban striker replacement.
The second and third union workers to take their jobs back as "super scabs" suffered their houses being shot up in drive-by attacks.
[citation needed] In August 2006, International Paper sold the Androscoggin plant to Verso Holdings, LLC.