Myllykoski Paper to reduce over 300 jobs
Outsourcing to cover more than half of cuts at Anjalankoski mill
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Myllykoski Paper plans to cut 310 jobs in connection with discussions launched on Tuesday with employees in Anjalankoski.
Pension arrangements, layoffs, and outsourcing of operations are to affect more than one third of the company's personnel in Finland.
The discussions at the Anjalankoski mill involve 110 factory workers and 25 office workers in different parts of the installation. In addition, the company is looking for an external partner, which would take on 175 employees who are currently working for Myllykoski in maintenance and planning.
CEO Tuomo Tuomela says that the personnel arrangements aim at cost cuts of 15 percent.
Myllykoski announced planned discussions on job cuts two weeks ago. On Tuesday the company set its aims for personnel reductions, but the exact impact on individual departments has not yet been specified.
The greatest single area involving the talks concerns the cancellation of the service contract on steam and electricity production with the company Vamy Oy.
Vamy is a power plant owned by the electric utility Vattenfall, whose staff of about 20 people work for Myllykoski Paper.
Head shop steward Timo Byman says that he is disappointed and frustrated. "Two years ago 50 jobs were cut, and we went through the whole company with a fine-toothed comb."
Byman expects difficult talks, as 90 people are to be cut from the core process of the factory without cutting back on activities.
As for the outsourcing of maintenance, Byman says that experience has shown that things work the best, when the people who use the machines and maintenance personnel are employed by the factory.
He feels that it is unfair for Myllykoski Paper to compare productivity of the Anjalankoski mill with the company's Lang paper mill in Germany.
"I feel that a comparison of productivity should involve identical machines and identical products." He notes, for instance, that the raw material at the Lang factory is recycled paper, which requires less work than paper made directly out of wood fibre.
Helsingin Sanomat
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| 19.4.2006 - TODAY |
 Myllykoski Paper to reduce over 300 jobs |
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