timken Canada Distributor
Saturday, 28. March 2009
timken Canada Distributor-Timken has 36 plants in the U.S. and one more in Canada, in British Columbia.
Timken Canada is cutting jobs and yesterday issued layoff notices to 140 workers, meaning only 73 will be working Monday.
The greatest concern now is that cutting production to one shift, with its U.S. plants also under-capacity, may spell the death of the local manufacturer, said Cornish.
“It is pretty nasty,People here are numb. We were not anticipating this.” said Kathy Cornish, chairperson Local 4906 United Steelworkers, representing workers at the plant.
The plant employed more than 300 a few months ago, but since then 73 have been on layoff and another nine were lost to retirements in December.
“The fear is very real. We have heard from the company about cross border issues . the plant manager has suggested we would not be viable on one shift,” said Cornish.
However, Lorrie Paul Crum, manager of communications for Timken in Ohio, said the layoffs are due to the downturn in manufacturing, and the jobs will return when the economy does.
“We are still looking for the bottom, for some sign of recovery and then we will happily put people back to work.” “We are seeing the same thing all over the world, all our facilities are affected by this and we are adjusting production levels,” said Crum.
But she sounded an optimistic note on Timken’s future in St. Thomas saying “the plant will continue” to operate. Timken manufactures close to its customers and St. Thomas helps supply Ontario, eastern Canada and the northeastern U.S. markets with the tapered bearings it makes, she said.
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