Pain of Kaiser lockout still hasn't eased for some

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Golden Pen

For the past two years my father and I have been in a struggle. My father has been a loyal Steelworker at Kaiser for 11 years. Even though the strike is over, my dad hasn't gotten his job back. Eleven years of hard work turned out to be all for nothing.

I remember getting up at 8 every Thursday morning over the summer to go to the Kaiser workers' food bank.

My dad was sad for a long time and felt like a failure because he had lost his job (through no fault of his own). He's gone through three jobs in the last two years and has been laid off from each of them. He has a job now but he's about to get laid off from that, too.

My dad does a good job of keeping going and never giving up on life, family, work or anything else. I sure wish that Maxxam Corp. Chairman Charles Hurwitz and Kaiser CEO Ray Milchovich would give him his job back.

Mandy Patterson

Spokane