Post and Courier

Georgetown businesses are helping mill workers get through the holidays. Here's how.

GEORGETOWN — Armed with 800 pounds of turkey and 200 pounds of ham, Trevor Day is ready for the holidays. The owner of Buzz’s Roost on Front Street wants to help International Paper mill workers get ...
Yahoo

Former Chillicothe paper mill workers feel left behind after closure

CHILLICOTHE – As Jeff Allen drove past the place he worked for nearly 37 years, he looked toward the sky and witnessed something in early December that he hadn't seen in months. Smoke billowed from ...
Post and Courier

Hundreds of Georgetown mill workers lose their jobs; some companies want to hire them.

GEORGETOWN — A campaign is underway to help hundreds of International Paper workers find new jobs as the Georgetown paper mill prepares to close in the coming weeks. The Oct. 31 announcement that the ...
The Spokesman-Review

A mill town lost its mill. What is it now?

CANTON, N.C. — The first thing the mill workers noticed on what they later deemed “Black Monday” was the series of dark SUVs pulling up near the paper mill, at the heart of Canton, North Carolina. The ...
Charlotte Observer

Worker fatally crushed by mill machine had called for help 4 times, WA officials say

A mill worker tried to call for help four times before he was fatally crushed by a packaging machine in Washington, officials said. His death could have been prevented, labor officials said. Now, ...