About 100 unionized paperworkers will meet in Montreal this week to develop a co-ordinated plan of action following AbitibiBowater’s recently-announced mill closures and plans to reopen negotiated collective agreements.
CEP has organized the Dec. 5-6 meeting, at the Delta Hotel in Montreal, to bring together 35 CEP AbitibiBowater locals from 17 Canadian pulp and paper mills into a single caucus after the merger of Abitibi and Bowater’s operations was completed last month.
The more than 1,000 victims in the mills at Dalhousie, N.B., Shawinigan and Donnacona, Que., and McKenzie, B.C. bring job losses in the forestry sector to more than 20,000 in the past two-three years, said Dave Coles, president of the 150,000-member CEP.
Among other things, the union will convene an emergency summit of union and industry leaders in the forestry sector to deal with what it calls “the biggest single jobs crisis ever faced in one sector.”
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