The Virginian-Pilot
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Former employees of International Paper's closed lumber mill outside Franklin will be eligible for federal aid under the Trade Adjustment Assistance program, U.S. Sens. Mark Warner and Jim Webb announced Wednesday.
Warner and Webb said they hoped the assistance would be provided to workers at the paper mill and its associated operations, which will close by spring. International Paper employs about 1,100 people at the site. That doesn't include the 120 workers at the lumber mill, which closed over the summer.
Potential benefits under the trade adjustment program include aid for job retraining, moving allowances and a tax credit to offset health-insurance costs.
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Trade Adjustment Assistance
Nothing has been handed to the employees of IP. The Trade Adjustment Assistance does not require a politician or employer to file for it. Per the government website, as little as three displaced workers can file a petition to receive it!
Trade Adjustment Assistance
Nothing has been handed to the employees of IP. The Trade Adjustment Assistance does not require a politician or employer to file for it. Per the government website, as little as three displaced workers can file a petition to receive it!
Why?
Are these people more special than individuals who lose their jobs. I like to see everyone get help when needed but it seems like you have to be with a large group before you get any help. If one house burns down, you get no help. If the entire block burns down, everyone gets assistance.
Typical Democrates
I wonder how many hundreds of other workers lost their jobs and these two democrates did nothing, but when union workers lose theirs they get everything handed to them. Unions is what drove their jobs overseas in the first place.
Non Union
The folks in the lumber yard were non union.