“I don’t want a handout, I want a job”: Laid-off Island mill workers fight for EI

Raw logs were being loaded for export at the shuttered Crofton pulp mill on Monday - just weeks after hundreds of local workers were laid off over a lack of wood fibre, and as about 120 sidelined Chemainus sawmill employees brace for their EI benefits to run dry. The post “I don’t want a handout, I want a job”: Laid-off Island mill workers fight for EI appeared first on CHEK .