...Tembec Cheats Workers...

Can you believe this ...

In 2004 Tembec made 2 promises to the remaining workers at the Cranbrook BC Planer Mill.

Tembec Executive Vice President, and  President of Tembec's Forest Products Group DENNIS ROUNSVILLE, along with Cranbrook native TOM KIRK, the Human Resources Director of Tembec's BC Division promised that:

  1. They would close the Cranbrook Planer in 2007 - it did.

  2. They would pay severance to the remaining workers when the mill closed - They didn't.

 
These promises were made in writing and had been verbally re-confirmed by management many times over 3 years prior to shutdown.

Rob Ondrik gets credit for the key creative loopholes written into these meeting minutes
 

It's now 2 years later and this is what they say about the second promise:

   "To be clear, we have no intent on paying severance"
Jean Luc Carrier, September 28, 2009

"We're not going to pay severance."
Tom Kirk, Human Resources Manager
January 5, 2010

Two years after closure Tembec is now calling this a temporary shutdown due to market conditions to get out of paying the remaining 15 loyal workers and their families their promised severance. 


At the end of November 2009,  instead of sending out the promised severance cheques Tembec will be sending out these termination letters to workers who have been with the company for 30+ years, some of our guys have already received them.

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All we ask is for Tembec to honor their promises to their employees.