More layoffs at Northern Pulp

Apr 24, 2009 | In Mill Closures & Layoffs | 6 feedbacks »

Just a few weeks ago the provincial government of Nova Scotia gave the Northern Pulp mill in Pictou County $15 million loan.

Now the community is hearing that 22 more employees will be laid off from the mill beginning on May 3rd.

Pictou East MLA Clarrie MacKinnon said he began getting calls about the layoffs on Monday. He says he’s concerned about the fact that provincial money has been recently poured into the pulp mill – and now there are potential layoffs.

“It’s very concerning,” he said. “Part of the reason the province came up with the loan for Northern Pulp was to keep the facility going and keep the workers down there employed.”
While MacKinnon says he understands that the company must keep the mill viable, he’s hoping both the employer and the union will be able to come to a “satisfactory solution.”

This would be the second reduction of the workforce Northern Pulp has seen in the past few months. In October, 34 workers were given early retirement packages.

Source:
More layoffs rumoured for Northern Pulp mill (The News)

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Comment from: timbertom [Visitor]
the government has to wake up and put some strings on these loans these companys are always asking for tax payers money to help them out and all they do is lay off more workers. if they want help keep pople working if they lay people off take the loans back its time to protect the worker.ps its the worker that always gets screwed not the high payed management
24/04/09 @ 12:38
Comment from: Laid off [Visitor]
So true. Management seems to be kept on the payroll despite doing sweet all at work (mill is down, stone cold,) while the rest collect EI and wait for the call back...
24/04/09 @ 13:18
Comment from: Axel [Visitor]
Laid off... I hear ya!... I know i work for another Company in a different plant, i will say that this sounds familiar! We have done many weeks worth of downtime now & i know it probably won't surprise you to hear that everytime we come back to work & get up & running again, what do we discover?... Well we discover that while the workers have been laid off & sitting home... management has gone & hired more what?... yep! you guessed it , they have gone & hired even more management,to sit around in their offices & supervise absolutely NO workers,cause the place isn't even running! It seems like it is never ending! We (the workers) take constant cuts to help the company & at the same time the management keeps hiring more management (most likely so that when the cuts on their end finally do come, they all have their sacrificial lambs below them,thus insultaing all of the real management from any cuts at all)& even while we are all on layoff (the actual workers)... all of the management staff (appr a ratio of 1 to 3) are all reporting to work daily & collecting their salaries for doing absolutely squat... but then , any in the know should not be surprised by that anyway! .... Have to say... getting really tired of it!!
24/04/09 @ 13:31
Comment from: angel [Visitor]
...well two more people are headed your way for that "over staffed" management team from Ontario....you are not alone in how you feel...getting real tired of it all!!!!!
25/04/09 @ 08:59
Comment from: Laid off [Visitor]
Those management types are just "overhead" now, consuming cash for doing shit all. Best to get rid of them and hire temps to watch and protect the idled assests until time to startup.
26/04/09 @ 00:28
Comment from: Shirley Malashewski [Visitor]
In regards to The article (two people from Ontario coming)! I have just one thing to ask the person who wrote that note. Would you go if you were asked????? I bet you would. So don't knock these people for trying to support their families.
26/04/09 @ 22:32

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