Resolute employees out of work after contractor shuts down

CBC News
December 14, 2017
Category: Business & Politics
Region: Canada, Canada East

More than 40 Resolute Forest Products employees are hoping they’ll be back to work soon after a contractor they were working with ceased operations. The employees, all members of the company’s woodlands division, were working with a company called Marcri Logging. However, the workers were told on November 17 that Marcri Logging was ceasing operations, and there was no more work for them as a result. United Steelworkers Local 1-2010, which represents the employees, told CBC News it is “working hard to get them back to work,” but added it’s a complicated situation when company employees are working for a contractor.

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