Trouble in Thunder Bay

About 120 Thunder Bay Sawmill workers are to be laid off for two weeks next month as the stud plant tries to reduce inventory.
The shutdown at the AbitibiBowater-owned operation will also impact an additional 150 workers who deliver logs to the mill and provide other services.
General manager Luke Drapeau says he is confident the mill will resume operations November 24th and all 120 workers will be recalled.
Though the layoff is attributed to excess inventory, it will coincide with a similar layoff at AbitibiBowater’s Thunder Bay pulp and paper mill.
Meantime, the long-suffering Thunder Bay Fine Papers is now in receivership.
A receiver is to take possession of the mill and sell it so creditors can get some of the millions of dollars owed to them.
Excess inventory and a lack of customers forced the mill to close in July, less than a year after it reopened.