PPWC has rejected the offer!
I guess they just wanted their share of the billions in profit and the hundreds of millions in free tax payers money from the Harper government.

I think the offer was reasonable. Only thing it probably should have been a 4 yr contract.

Hard to believe someone complaining about making $70,000 plus a year. Denaljo, wait till you get in the real world outside the mills and then find out what your really worth an hour.

Not everyone makes $70,000. What would be wrong with that? Right wing comments like that have attributed to the thought that its wrong to share the wealth. He spoke, do you like to work for a reasonable wage? you probably own your own business and pay minimum wage. Why should companies and shareholders get it all when the resources belong to all of us?

Well. the co and shareholders put up a lot of money and risk, The employee puts in nothing. Most dont even do a proper days work. Some say they sleep half the time.
I say fire them if they dont like their raise and sighning bonus. Most of them dont even tie up their shoes. Sheeesh.

onemansthoughts you obviously have never been to the mill or lived with someone who works there! The workers are taking all the risk, they breathe in chemicals that are very dangerous to their health all the time and have a higher risk of disease (cancer, respitory, etc.) later in the future than any other any other industry. I have witnessed someone close to me come home with severe burns from a chemical splash and have been up puking from breathing in the chemicals. Make sure before you bad mouth those you don’t know anything about you walk a mile in their shoes. And remember the saying of “one bad apple”, not all sleep on the job!

Well said-and many have years of shift work which shortens their lives! Quite a few are shareholders in the company also, because they believe that the company will continue to make good profits!!

Onemansthoughts I would really learn to think before you open your mouth I’m a pulp mill worker and a shift worker to boot yes we do have it easy at times but when we work we work I have sacrificed alot for what I have one of those being a shortened life span and the fact that many shift workers sacrifice a normal family life and regular working hours to provide for their families. So please do the rest of the world a favor and think before you speak.

Onemansthoughts…you don’t know what you are talking about. Most employees are shareholders too. Those who chose to, which is the majority, have the cost to purchase CPLP shares taken right off their pay cheques every 2 weeks.

$3750.00 is $1.80 an hour increase over the 2080 hour work year. Some of you must be making a lot of money if you think even a 5% raise would be good. At a base of $80,000.00 5% would be $4000.00 or $1.92 per hour. How much do you guys make on average anyway? It must be a whole lot more than I make.

$1.80 if all your hours are at straight time and you don’t work any stat holidays. Not to mention the $3750 doesn’t count towards your pensionable earnings for calculating your pension, and it doesn’t get reflected in our weekly indemnity and life insurance as earnings. Then compound that with it being a one time pay off that all the younger employees and new hires in the future will never see! Sort of like selling out your kids by taking the gravy and leaving them the grits!

Duffer – maybe you should be asking how many hours they work? How many Statutory holidays…..for a great many it’s far more than your using in your calculations.