keep them guys working.

With Japan needing lumber to rebuild , will Rustads maybe reopen ??

Polar Sawmill is fine and will be running Monday morning. I was there fighting the fire this morning, most of the damage is cosmetic to the building and Sawmill Maintenance Office area. The acctual damage to the equipment was kept oa a minimum. Looked at lot worse than it was.

Rustads is finished. It will cost them too much to reopen. They would have to replace all the parts they threw away or put in their other plants. As it sits right now that mill can't run because of missing equipment. Things have been chopped out and put in other places. Why start up a dead horse?

All rustad employees should band together and stand up to canfor for severance. We all know the mill will not reopen and I believe those lucky 7 that remain should feel the same thing the rest of us has and thats layoff. Almost 2 years these guys have been there I ask myself for what a mill that will not start up I say lay them off but its cheaper to pay those guys to sit around, turn the odd motor, plow some snow than to pay severance. Shut the mill down and pay us all out. I wrote my case to Mr Bell and so shall you all. We have to fight for our severance and let us be heard, if we just do nothing and not get heard they will think nothing of it.

I heard a bunch of rustad guys are going after there severance from outside help,the lawyers will be from the south and have a won in the past.u will be contacted soon

Radium bros will also join forces

Canonical,I would talk to the new premier christyclark she will listen,she will take action.

It will be 3 years this June since Winton Global closed & they still don't have any severance. The Steelworkers sold the membership out. The members get to keep their seniority in exchange for no severance. The companies don't have to pay now as long as it's still an indefinite shutdown which can go on for years.

Mythougts,rustads guys are smart there going to hire there own lawyers and watch them get the payout.wonton global guys left it to the union.

I suggest u guys also join forces with rustads,radium and wonton global.lawyers down south are slick!

LOL pgguru, Canfors lawyers are from down south.
" Mythougts,rustads guys are smart there going to hire there own lawyers and watch them get the payout.wonton global guys left it to the union."

I wonder what the boys will have to pay the lawyers? 50% of their settlement? I guess something is better than nothing.

Yes the steelworkers didn't help the situation by extending the recall rights for the duration of the new contract. But there apparently is language in the new contract regarding partial shutdowns. Don't know for sure about that as I don't have the current contract.

Who are these lawyers and when would I be contacted? I heard about some Rustad guys going after lawyers for severence but that was a while back atleast a year and so far nothing has come back no lawyer has contacted any of the guys i know that have worked there. Maybe they walked into a brick wall at some point.

How would you think christy clark will listen hell Pat Bell ain't doing a damn thing. McKenzie mills was all politics and reopened to avoid a total colapse of the community a modernday Barkaville, You gotta wonder what if Rustads hadn't gone union or when the last contract was signed and knowing tough times was ahead why they didn't put in their contract that if the mill was to shutdown it was permanent then they wouldn't be in this situation.

The government isn't going to help. They are the ones that past legislation that allowed the companies to do this. Do you think Canfor would of paid all that serverance to the Upper Fraser boys if they didn't have to?