Posted on 12/15/2009 7:17:10 PM PST by Newtoidaho
Smurfit-Stone Container Corp. announced on Monday the permanent closure of its linerboard plant in Frenchtown, effective Dec.31. The news came as a shock to the plant's 417 workers, all of whom will lose their jobs.
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The land of hopeychangey. It is really sad to see so many hurt for no reason whatsoever. The high level of ignorance in this nation is taking it down.
Oh man. This is sad.
All the Smurfs will soon be homeless.
oh the smurfity...
I had no idea the hot little blue chick owned a mill.
They closed their brownstone operation in Portland, CT this past summer.
It’s always sad to see a plant close and to lose jobs, but 70K a year seems high to me in Montana for a factory job.
500 jobs lost is a real gut blow to the Missoula economy. These are some of the best jobs in the area.
All out of work in two weeks. Merry Christmas.
At least the Griz are going to a real national championship game.
According to county tax figures, Smurfit-Stone is currently more than $2 million in tax arrears, with roughly $1.1 million of that incurred from penalties and interest from fiscal year 2008 and another $960,000 for the first half of FY 2009, which was due Dec. 7.
For years I was a supplier for that mill, been there often (knew Jodie at the Red Lion! :-) But this one isn’t a laughing matter at all ... that is one big paper mill, lots of people, relatively small community. What a shame to see this one go down.
I knew I forgot to add something... this is unrelated to the Smurfs!
However it would seem likely there will be a lot of folks feeling very blue this season in Missoula.
bada-boom
It was too easy.
Instead of going to work every day, the workers will have time to insulate the attic, while feeling really sexy of course.
There are the 400+ workers. The supporting contractors. The restaurants. The suppliers and vendors. The churches. The grocery stores.
Many of the 400 will leave to find work elsewhere.
The entire economic chain of that town is going to be affected. Very sad.
Seems to be a lot of this goin’ around...
but, but, the stimulus package will get their roads fixed...
.... Barrrack Husssein Oooobama, hm, hm, hm change at work...
didn’t they hear SOBama say that economy is turning around??? ...aaaaand free hellcare is on the horizon???
Montana bad news Ping
417 workers
$70,000 each a year
so if they all took a paycut
They could have saved the factory?
they can ride the rails hoping for a Dagny Taggart to pick them up.
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