The sawmills at Castlegar were transformed into an updated sawmill, a kraft mill, and a pulp mill. Columbia Cellulose was granted TFL No. 23 in July, 1955 and Nakusp was the headquarters for the woods operations in the interior with the Arrow Lakes system and tributary rivers providing waterways for booming and towing to the mills at Castlegar.
The Finnish Paperworkers' Union has informed UPM that their strike at UPM's Finnish mills will be extended by three weeks until 12 March 2022, unless new agreements are reached before that. The Paperworkers' Union's strike at UPM Pulp, UPM Biofuels, UPM Communication Papers, UPM Specialty Papers and UPM Raflatac units in Finland started 1 …
Français. 27 January, 2022 The bitter dispute at the Finnish forestry, pulp and paper company UPM threatens to drag on as the strike, which began on 1 January, has been extended until 19 February. 2,200 workers at all UPM business units are on strike, with dockers and railway workers showing solidarity by refusing to handle the company's ...
The Paperworkers' Union's strike at most UPM mills in Finland began January 1, 2022, and lasted almost four months. Originally, approximately 2,100 members of …
Sale of 3 coastal pulp and paper mills hailed as win for 1,500 workers in B.C. The company continues to work with senior government officials to …
11 Mar 2022 --- Finnish paper mill giant UPM is "unreasonably" refusing to negotiate collectively with its workers and attempting to deteriorate working conditions for its employees, alleges trade union IndustriAll Europe. Many of the company's staff, who number around 18,000, have officially been on strike since the beginning of the year, which could …
Incident Description: On May 26, 2021, the Daily Jefferson County Union reported a fire at a paper mill in Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin. Firefighters responded to reports that a smokestack was on fire and flames were visible on the roof. They arrived at around 8:20 p.m. and worked with mill employees to fight the fire.
1980 Kinleith Pulp and Paper mill workers went on strike for higher wages. The strike lasted 3 months and ended in the Government appealing the wage regulat...
WIDESPREAD STRIKES began this morning in the pulp and paper industry an unsuccessful last-minute attempt to mediate a settlement to the labour dispute between Finnish Forest Industries and the Finnish Paper Workers' Union.. The Paper Workers' Union has estimated that 9,000 of its members will participate in the weeks-long strike that shuts down …
The strike at UPM mills in Finland will end immediately and employees will return to work. The strike covered UPM Pulp, UPM Communication Papers, UPM Specialty Papers, UPM Raflatac, and UPM ...
Jo Francis Friday, February 4, 2022 Printers, print buyers and paper merchants are in despair after UPM announced that strike action at its Finnish mills could be extended for a third time and by a further three weeks – until 12 March. UPM: Union "seems to be playing for time" at the expense of their members and UPM's businesses
Members of the Association of Western Pulp and Paper Workers walked out after talks with a...
UPM and the Paperworkers' Union have agreed on first-ever business-specific collective labour agreements for five UPM businesses. The strike at UPM mills in Finland will end immediately and employees will return to work. The strike covered UPM Pulp, UPM Communication Papers, UPM Specialty Papers, UPM Raflatac and UPM Biofuels units in Finland. UPM will restart …
The pulp mill industry is one of the largest producers of water pollution in the world. One of Surfrider Foundation's first and largest victories was a successful Clean Water Act lawsuit filed in 1989 and settled in 1991 against pulp mills in Humboldt County, California that were operated by Simpson Paper Company and Louisiana-Pacific Corporation.
The strike that had affected the Tarascon pulp mill for more than a week ended on ThursdayThe Fiber Excellence factory in Tarascon - Sylvain THOMAS / AFP Game over. The strike which had lasted for more than a week at the Tarascon pulp mill (Bouches-du-Rhône) and directly threatened, according to management, the survival of the company, ended Thursday.
The honor of establishing the first chemical pulp mill in Berlin goes to Forest Fibre Company which started in July 1877, just downriver from the Berlin Mills complex. ... In 1921, IP and its unions engaged in a bitter labor dispute that saw workers in many of its plants strike when the company tried to cut wages. The strike dragged on for ...
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The Finnish Paperworkers' Union has issued a new strike announcement to UPM, declaring that their strike at UPM's Finnish mills will be extended by two weeks until 19 February 2022, unless new agreements are reached before that. The Paperworkers' Union's strike at UPM Pulp, UPM Biofuels, UPM Communication Papers, UPM Specialty Papers and UPM Raflatac …
Vancouver Port strike could halt pulp mills this week as lumber piles up Pulp mills in northern Alberta and British Columbia may be forced to suspend operations as early as this week because a labor dispute by truckers at Canada's largest port is causing lumber to pile up Bloomberg News
English Finnish. (UPM, Helsinki, 31.3.2022 at 13:30 EEST) – The Paperworkers' Union announced today that the strike at most UPM's Finnish mills will continue until 30 April 2022, unless new ...
Strike closes Tembec's Temiscaming mills. November 27, 2014 By Pulp & Paper Canada. In response to Unifor Local 233's decision to go on strike effective Nov. 26, Tembec has ceased operations at its Temiscaming, Quebec industrial complex, which comprises four main facilities manufacturing specialty pulp, high-yield pulp,…. In response to ...
Feb 4 (Reuters) - Finnish paperworkers will extend a strike at UPM-Kymmene's UPM.HE mills in Finland until March 12, their union said on Friday. Employees of UPM's paper, pulp and biofuels plants ...
February 04, 2022 Reprints. European self-adhesive label industry association Finat has warned of Nordic paper shortages due to the ongoing strikes at Finnish pulp producer UPM-Kymmene Oyj since ...
HELSINKI – Some 3,000 workers at Finnish forestry group UPM went on strike on Saturday, shutting plants, the company said on Saturday. Three unions representing paper workers, managerial staff ...