Was it paid with the 'proceeds of crime'?

So, As long as Mackenzie Pulp has the chemicals, they hold the MoE and the Province as a hostage asking for bimonthly payments. Hmmmmmmmm interesting.

Not sure what conspiracy theory He speaks imagines. Seems to me it's the remaining workers who are hostages. They're caught between trying to do what's right to protect their workplace and community and an unscrupulous owner who hasn't been forthright in any way since buying the mill out of receivership last fall.

With the BILLIONS in cost overruns on pet Liberal projects and the announcement of 3 Billion more for a bridge in Vancouver {15 Billion by time it is done} a person would think a little more could be done for the PEOPLE in Mackenzie. Yoy know-something a bit more forward looking.

Such as...?

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"Was it paid with the 'proceeds of crime'?"

What kind of comment is that? Our provincial government does not engage in criminal activities ;-) ;-) ;-)

I heard rumors that Worthington bought the Pulp Mill because he is buddies with Jim Patterson and that Jim Patterson wanted him to buy it so that Canfor could get out of there deal with them, and then he wanted Worthington to claim bankrupcy so that Canfor could buy it for cheap don't know if its true but thats the rumor.

Jimmy needs that mill like he needs a hole in the head.
You leftwingers with your dumb rumours.

I can believe the chip contract part. But I would think he would only want the mill if all the environmental issue had all been addressed and clean up.
Maybe the new owner whats to move it to Slovakia or where ever he is from.
Since we are starting rumours and all here is one:

I hear Worthington Pulp & Paper who has purchased the Former P&T Pulp Mill in Mackenzie BC is planing to tear down and relocated the operation to Slovakia and is offering all former and current employees the option to relocate any employees to this new location, do all the required paperwork and pay for their relocation. The catch is once relocated they must work at local wage rates and labor standards.
Anyone up to take the offer??

fenceman:

It appears that you need to go outside and get a breath of fresh air. Your posts over the last couple of days read like a commercial for "outsourcing 101". There is a reason the "trades" earn aprox. $30-$35/hr. in the pulp/sawmill industry. Someone with the authority to do so, signed a collective agreement with their Employees. Trades make up the majority of the workforce in a pulpmill,so your "catch" of relocating them to work for local wages & labor standards may prove to be a tough sell. Your view that the only way to lower costs & make a profit, is to offer substandard wages & working conditions, here or abroad, makes it very easy to understand why you have a difficult time retaining employees!

I've heard that if you haven't heard a good rumour by 9 a.m., you start one yourself.

So watch this space just after 9 a.m.

Winton orpahan,

I never said "the only way to lower costs & make a profit, is to offer substandard wages & working conditions, here or abroad"
nor is it my view!

I was only making a point that this type of thing is happening in the world right now.
IBM in the US is offering this exact deal to employees from plants they are closing down in the US and moving to Brazil and India.
The key word your right was the "catch" IBM I would think knows no one would take the deal, but you can not say they offered them a job.

Is it a fare job "no".

Are they doing it to save money "Yes".

Why? because we as the consumer demand lower pricing to allow us to live at the levels of luxury we have become a custom too.

How do you get lower pricing?: cut profits, cut quality, cut lobour costs.

The owners and stock holders of a company still want to get payed other wise why even have the company if there is no profit.

People will stop buying your products if the quality becomes to poor

What is left: the companies looks at cutting or acquiring cheaper labour costs.

Or closing down all together.

Is this right? who knows

What can we do about it? Stop buying cheap offshore stuff, and that is what much of what we spend our money on is just, useless disposable stuff.
Save up your $ to buy things made in North America. If we want jobs to stay here and grow here we need to go back to having things made here.
We as the consumers have always had the power not the companies.

Hey beesknees have you ever thought about thinking 3 times before you open your month this rumour has been floating for months, and HD have you ever thought that if Canfor ended up buying the pulp mill Jimmy would have it then canfor would open their mill and the pulp mill so they would not need the fibre supply contract if they owned both mills.Plus they got a pulp mill for very cheap because nobody will want it without a fibre supply.