Temporary Furlough at Nippon Mill
Sixty Port Angeles employees of Nippon Paper Industries USA have been furloughed until April 27th while the mill shuts down for cleaning and maintenance. Regarding unemployment benefits during laid-off workers' time off, the company's Human Resources Manager Cathy Price said:
“We have coordinated unemployment meetings at the mill if that’s the way they want to go.”
“We have coordinated unemployment meetings at the mill if that’s the way they want to go.”
posted by Tom Harper at 11:37 PM
7 Comments:
I noticed that the "co-generation" of electricity for sale will resume well before paper production begins again. So - the predictions of the biomass plant's opponents are coming true: Nippon's end game is to profit from selling electricity, not paper.
Nippon has erected, with the help of lavish public subsidies and incentives, a free standing biomass-burning power plant on the Port Angeles waterfront.
No "co-generation" necessary here, except to perpetuate the myth that Nippon's new facilities somehow serve the public interest.
Will be interesting to see if the workers do indeed return to the paper production part of the mill. As we know, they shut down the other half last fall.
Don't they lose a grant or something if they shut down before 2017?
With the huge amounts of money an international giant like Nippon Industries goes through each year, Port Angeles in pretty low on their priority lists.
And lose a grant? If it even catches their attention, I'm sure their tax lawyers have a plan to write it all off as a "loss".
Let's see what the shut down does to the City of Port Angeles budget and spending.
When Nippon shut down the first half of the mill, the city sputtered all over about what a loss of revenue to the city the shut down represented.
We'll see soon enough.
remember, it's a "local" company!
Yeah, as "local" as Tokyo Electric and Power Company.
You know? That operate the Fukushima Diiachi power plants?
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