Maine senators seek aid for mill workers
8/30/08 | 2 comments

Maine senators seek aid for mill workers


By The Associated Press
BDN Staff

MILLINOCKET, Maine (AP) — Maine’s two senators are requesting trade adjustment assistance for workers who are losing their jobs at Katahdin Paper Co.’s mill in Millinocket.

Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins sent a letter Thursday to Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao saying the workers are being displaced due to increased imports and foreign competition.

The Katahdin mill, which makes paper used in magazines and catalogs, is scheduled to close its doors on Tuesday, putting more than 200 people out of work.

If the Labor Department grants trade adjustment assistance, displaced workers will be eligible for employment training, income support, job search allowance and other services.

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On 8/30/08 at 2:05 PM, OutsideObserver wrote:         Repeated separate thumbs down will cause comment to be hidden

It amazes me how this once holier than thou community is there to suck up all the handouts they can when greed is what has made them what they are? Suppose you can get reimbursed for the Union Dues you thought you needed for Job Security?

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On 8/30/08 at 4:13 PM, Mark44 wrote:         Repeated separate thumbs down will cause comment to be hidden

Tom Allen came, and left; he hasn’t even tried to do anything for Millinocket, most, even Union members are holding out hope for Senator Collins intervention.

Millinocket town councilors push to take back the Millinocket dam that was given to “The People of Maine” by Governor Baxter maybe more of a reality than once thought.

Originally a reporter from the Bangor Daily News Rick Sambides repeatedly misquoted everything that was said at the last Millinocket town meeting, and subsequently that story was pulled from general circulation http://bangornews.com/detail/49802.html

When it became apparent that the Brookfield Power had other plans for the Mill site, including shutting its doors and displacing some 208 jobs, any future plan of site cleanup, but still demanding its tax reduction, that was enough for the Town Councilors, the Unions and most towns people to say its time for action.

Brookfield Power made it very clear to Millinocket by threatening to shut down East Millinocket if they made waves. This beehive of corruption has left everyone asking; what Millinocket Town Councilor was so criminally inept to give a bunch of hockey rink rejects a TIFF that continues, even after they close their doors?

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