Interview with Doug Gibson

Interview with Doug Gibson

Air quality management

Blue Ridge Paper Products

Champion International Corporation -- Employees

Employee ownership

Gibson, Doug

Industries

Paper industry -- Environmental aspects

Paper industry -- Management -- Employee participation

Paper industry workers -- Labor unions

Water quality management -- North Carolina -- Canton

Doug Gibson shares his experience working at Champion Paper Mill through the 70s, 80s and 90s. In 1972, when Gibson began work, Champion changed its name to Champion International Corporation and soon after starting he joined the union. Gibson talks about his role on the employee shared ownership committee, the employee buyout resulting in the formation of Blue Ridge Paper Company, environmental issues, and the sale of the company to Evergreen Packaging.

Gibson, Doug

WCU Oral History Collection - HIST 474/574

Hunter Library Digital Collections, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC 28723

1970s; 1980s; 1990s;

2009-11-16;

Hughes, Kevin

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/

application/pdf; audio/mp3;

sound recordings

interviews

eng

Sound

35709

https://southernappalachiandigitalcollections.org/object/35709

2017-02-22

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Canton (N.C.)

Haywood County (N.C.)

00:57:03 (sound recording)(duration)

13 pages (transcript)(duration)

Oral Histories of Western North Carolina