KPly Mill Closing
KPly Inc. in Port Angeles will be closing permanently in sixty days. The mill has been idle since last November, but now the closure will be permanent.
This really sucks, not just for the 132 workers themselves but also for the overall impact on the local economy. City Manager Mark Madsen said: “It's not just these jobs that are impacted, but other jobs in the community tied to it. Each job they lose impacts at least one other job.”
KPly’s contact person, Jan Kirschner, said the only person authorized to talk about this was General Manager Tom Crandall. So far Crandall hasn’t returned phone calls from his home in Haines, Alaska.
KPly workers will be eligible for job training and other benefits under the Trade Act of 1974.
This really sucks, not just for the 132 workers themselves but also for the overall impact on the local economy. City Manager Mark Madsen said: “It's not just these jobs that are impacted, but other jobs in the community tied to it. Each job they lose impacts at least one other job.”
KPly’s contact person, Jan Kirschner, said the only person authorized to talk about this was General Manager Tom Crandall. So far Crandall hasn’t returned phone calls from his home in Haines, Alaska.
KPly workers will be eligible for job training and other benefits under the Trade Act of 1974.
Labels: City Manager Mark Madsen, KPly, KPly General Manager Tom Crandall Haines Alaska, KPly Jan Kirschner
posted by Tom Harper at 4:36 PM
9 Comments:
The empty building will make an excellent prison.
The city should turn the empty Kply site into a grafitti/tagging zone.
It's obvious the previous 2 commenters aren't laid off mill workers and aren't impacted by this massive layoff. I didn't know this subject was so funny.
There's nothing funny about this. Commenters who just make stupid jokes should stop commenting here and let people who actually care have a place to voice their thoughts.
Port Angeles is a great town facing some big challenges. We need good ideas, not sarcasm.
I checked blogger.com's code of conduct and it clearly states in acticle 3, paragraph 2, sentence 5 "…jocularity involving recent job loss, drooling clueless politicians and unintended flatulence will not be tolerated…”
By my calculations, this blog violates this regulation in 82.48 percent of the comments. This cannot go on. Those of you posting anonymously have 24 hours to turn yourself into the serious police, if not, women, children and house cats will be rounded up as hostages and tortured using waterboarding and other approved techniques until they give you up. Think of the children, for pete’s sake, turn yourself in.
I think if Tom really did not approve, he would disallow anonymous posting of comments. My take on it is: if you are not outraged, you’re not paying attention.
My guess is the city council will use the closing of KPly to bring in the proposed prison. Look at all those jobs the prison will bring in!
Even with the new people on the council, they're not likely to abide by the will of the people,e specially when a major job-provider is closing down.
Of course, the sensible thing to do would be to start looking for a major hotel to develope the site into a hotel/convention center. But that, of course, is the sensible thing.
Hooray for the prison!
boowhoo there are business shuting down everywhere with more ppl being laid off like 10 thousand,in 2 weeks, and that was major corp..mills all over will shut down do to the slow economy, nobodys buying homes or building,if they do build... good luck on a profit during this time...
Well, I just found this site...and have a comment to make to the last person who commented in April. Boohoo? Where do you get off commenting like that? All of us who worked in the industry already knew about the housing crunch and rising gas prices affecting the global economy. The topic was K-ply's closure...not some unidentified corp. Seems to me your brain functions as fast as the economies moving. We need ideas and thoughts on how to turn our "local" economy around. Such as, stop allowing minimum wage companies from developing in our area, like the walmart's. Which-90% is owned by China. That's our hard earned money leaving country. It all starts right here at home.
wow new mill is open now. oh yea 8 months or so later it laid over 100 people off seems like the same old story.
also dont bother applying if your over 50 they dont want experience they want yes men.
was hired to run a certain dept cause they didn't know how to turn anything on, well taught 4 guys what to do now im laid off and their still working, oh yea im over 50.
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