Northline sent its final proposal to the cooperative on Monday.
It offered each worker a cash payment, a place in a training program, and two years of access to a small industrial building six miles inland. The building had a lower ceiling than ours and no loading dock. The offer would expire in five days.
Attached was a revised public statement that described the fire as a preventable disaster caused by "multiple systemic and individual failures." Grant's name appeared in the next paragraph as a former executive who had "accepted responsibility and contributed to recovery efforts."
The wording was better. It was still built to make him the useful face of someone else's repair.
I brought the proposal to the board. We discussed it for three hours. The workers wanted to know if the new b
