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Union at Former Lincoln, Maine, Paper Mill Approves Proposed Buyer's Contract.

By Anthony Saucier, Bangor Daily News, Maine Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Apr. 21--LINCOLN -- Union workers from the former Lincoln Pulp and Paper Co. showed overwhelming support for a six-year labor contract proposed by the mill's prospective buyer.

Members of the PACE No. 1-0396 voted 234-26 to accept the contract proposed by the Connecticut-based First Paper Holding Corp. LLC, said Steve Corriveau, the union's president. Securing union approval of the labor contract was vital to the company's purchase of Lincoln's parent company, Eastern Pulp

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