by Working Forest | Mar 28, 2016 | Archives
The United Steelworkers Local 1-85 has launched legal proceedings against Western Forest Products to fight for Franklin Division loggers who haven’t worked at all in 2016. However, WFP claims the problem stems from a rate dispute with a contractor, and that they have...
by Working Forest | Mar 28, 2016 | Archives
From looking after a multi-million-dollar machine to helping his fellow human beings, John Mondoux is one of the hundreds of former Domtar workers who has reinvented his occupation since the mill closed. “It’s definitely a major change, from dealing with...
by Working Forest | Mar 28, 2016 | Archives
A worker at the Harmac Pacific pulp mill near Nanaimo has died after the wood chip pile he was standing on collapsed. Chris Fletcher, 37, of Nanaimo, had worked at the mill for four years and was a popular employee-owner, said company president Levi Sampson. “We’ve...
by Working Forest | Mar 28, 2016 | Articles
When seeking clues to how well conservation efforts are working in the present, sometimes scientists look to the past — and there may be no better historical record than the forest surveys conducted in Missouri by the Bureau of Land Management in the 1800s....
by Working Forest | Mar 24, 2016 | Archives
Nearly four months after the sawmill in Hornepayne, Ont., shut down, there are still more questions than answers — and the community is now feeling the pinch of fewer paycheques. Hornepayne, about 500 km northeast of Thunder Bay, is home to about 1,000 people....
