Paper Mill Workers in Pennsylvania “Shocked” Over Plant Closure Despite Union’s Endorsement of Joe Biden
Posted on 03/23/2021 5:09:25 AM PDT by Red Badger
Appvion Inc., a paper mill plant in Roaring Spring, Pennsylvania, is closing down on April 1 despite its union endorsing Joe Biden in 2020.
The New York Post called it the “first significant manufacturing loss in this state since President Biden took office.” 293 people will lose their jobs: 250 union, 43 management.
“When 300 people lose good-paying jobs, it’s not just 300 people that are adversely affected,” said Stephen McKnight of the Altoona-Blair County Development Corporation. “For every one job lost, an additional four to seven jobs outside the company are hurt, too. The long-term impact is even worse, costing a region millions of dollars that used to go directly into the community, schools and businesses.”
The president of the local United Steelworkers branch, Mitchell Becker, said that he’s had his job for 25 years and had no idea it was on the chopping block.
“We never thought we’d close, we just thought we would be sold,” he said.
Last month Becker assumed he’d be attending a routine meeting, but he and his team received a plant closure announcement instead.
“The mill leadership, including management from Wisconsin, just told us that we’re closing down on April 1st. And then they got up and left the room and let us sit there to vent to each other,” he recalled.
It came as a shock to local leadership as well. Pennsylvania state senator Judy Ward (R) said that she and other officials were “completely blindsided” by the closure.
Appvion claimed that COVID-19 restrictions are forcing the plant to shutter, but others say this is a half-truth.
“[Locals] speculate that inevitable climate change demands from the Biden administration would have forced Appvion to make costly upgrades, like when the plant underwent an expensive retrofit so it could meet new emissions standards set by the Obama administration,” writes the New York Post.
The plant first opened in 1866 and will have had a 155-year run.
Unexpected!
We are losing our country to the bureaucrats and the stupid people.
Fools.
The union members are fodder. The Democrats do not care about them especially if they are in their way to get POWER!
Sucks to be them.
Play stupid games; win stupid prizes.
What do people expect from a pro abortion candidate. These are people who gain power from pushing mothers to kill their own babies. Hello. They’ll continue voting democrat because ‘republicans are worse.’
dunder mifflin never saw it coming either.
The term is “useful idiots” .... Comrade
I’m having a hard time caring about this.
Neither actually give a damn.
DUMBASSES!!!
Good.
And the union people crawled away.........................
With leftist 'rats running things it won't be the last. 100% guaranteed.
“We never thought we’d close, we just thought we would be sold,” he said.
You thought you could just keep on doing the same thing and some other sucker would come in and pour a bunch of money into it? Apparently no-one wanted to throw away money.
“[Locals] speculate that inevitable climate change demands from the Biden administration would have forced Appvion to make costly upgrades...
Ding ding ding, we have a winner! Overbearing regulation kills businesses, kills jobs. Say it with me PA - leftists kill businesses, kill jobs. It is a hard lesson, have you learned it now?
...like when the plant underwent an expensive retrofit so it could meet new emissions standards set by the Obama administration...
Are we seeing a pattern here yet?
The plant first opened in 1866 and will have had a 155-year run.
And all it took was a couple of un-American, anti-American leftists to wipe it out in a much shorter timespan.
Leftists destroy everything they touch. Everything.
——the local United Steelworkers branch——
The steel workers have polluted American factories like an insidious cancer. The steel workers now no longer make paper but hang on making glass and water heaters and all sorts of non steel products.
The steel workers are killing them selves by making the products they make unsalablely expensive
If they can’t make paper, let them make steel
Good riddance
Is this in red or blue PA?
Let them learn to code paper.
Embrace the suck, union members.
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