Pink Slips A-Plenty!
Nackawick, New Brunswick is a small town about 65km west of where I live. It's home to the world's largest axe. Seriously, you can't make that kind of stuff up:
However, as of yesterday, Nackawick is also home to 400 laid off pulp mill workers. Another way to put it is to say that nearly half the town's population is now out of work. And they're understandably pissed.
So pissed, in fact, that as I type this the workers are illegally occupying the plant and ain't goin' nowhere until they get answers from the owners (New York-based Parsons & Whittemore, a company who posted revenues of over a billion dollars US in 2002) as to why the mill was closed without warning. And good on them, I say. Cue Rage Against the Machine's "Take the Power Back"...
Cross-posted at Destitute is the New Black!
However, as of yesterday, Nackawick is also home to 400 laid off pulp mill workers. Another way to put it is to say that nearly half the town's population is now out of work. And they're understandably pissed.
So pissed, in fact, that as I type this the workers are illegally occupying the plant and ain't goin' nowhere until they get answers from the owners (New York-based Parsons & Whittemore, a company who posted revenues of over a billion dollars US in 2002) as to why the mill was closed without warning. And good on them, I say. Cue Rage Against the Machine's "Take the Power Back"...
Cross-posted at Destitute is the New Black!
posted by Mary at 1:35 PM
1 Comments:
I say they should take the big axe, the big potato, the giant blueberry in sussex and put them all together and call it the "poorly thought-out tourist attracitons collection." Having them all in one place might make it worth visiting :)
Sad news though.. living in what would amount to a company town, especially in the extraction industry, would seem like the most incredibly unsettling living situation, where you can watch your livelihood disappear at an increasing rate each year..
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