From the Marquette Mining Journal. It's a couple days old but still good.
Run George run.
Way to go Mayor Bousley who got $500,000 from New Page. What did Steve Kagen and Jim Doyle get the people of Niagara. Can someone tell me. How many people from Niagara received jobs from the Bay Area Workforce Development? Well, Steve Kagen pretty much forgot about the people of Niagara (any news from Kagen's office)? I haven't heard. Jim Doyle is leaving town ( no second term) and training for the workers, well, how do you think that might have turned out? From JSOnline.
I have no information concerning the New Page workers in Niagara but this would seem to be the same song and dance you get from the BAWD. Mr. Golembeski is out of money (he calls it resources) and needs more tax payer money. What in God's names is he talking about? "More efficient, faster paced, more responsive to the global market", what jobs is he talking about? Are former mill and other laid off workers going to get the Noble prize for economics? I take that back, seems peace prizes come a dime a dozen.
Since Mr Golembeski and BAWD was a part to the retraining of workers at the Niagara mill and elsewhere, can we ask some questions about the Niagara workers? How many of the retrained workers got comparable or higher paying jobs? How many retrained workers are still out of work? How much money was spent on the workers and how much money was paid to BAWD? Does it matter if it's 2007. 2008 or 2009? What good does the BAWD do for the people of the area except living off the public dole. Wonder how much everyone at BAWD takes in salaries and benefits? What are their expenses when it comes to training? Just asking.
Three so called experts and groups who posed for holy pictures with laid off works and then promised them jobs and the bottom line on all this, we don't care and we need more money!
Hat's off to Mayor George Bousley for doing something for the people of Niagara. He delivered for the people of Niagara. GREAT job, maybe he should run for office or run retraining centers.
Run George run.
"Niagara receives NewPage funds
By NIKKI YOUNK, Iron Mountain Daily news
POSTED: September 27, 2009
NIAGARA, Wis. - The city of Niagara, Wis., has received the first of what is hoped to be five payments of $100,000 each from NewPage Corp.
According to Mayor George Bousley, the payments are the result of discussions he has had over the past year with NewPage Senior Vice President of Operations George Martin.
"I thought it was only fair that they gave something back to the community," Bousley said.
Niagara officials received the first check last week, and said they hope to get the next four payments of $100,000 each within the next four years.
City Administrator Don Novak said the money is part of the adaptive reuse plan for NewPage's Niagara paper mill.
He added that the funds will be earmarked for economic development and creating jobs.
Novak estimated discussions on how to use the money could begin at the beginning of next year.
In other mill news, Bousley said that progress continues on the opening of a tire shredding plant at the mill property. The plant would use about 10 acres.
Bousley also noted that there is still interest in the mill's paper machines.
NewPage officially closed its Niagara paper mill in August 2008 due to a decrease in market demand for coated paper. As a result, more than 300 employees from both Michigan and Wisconsin lost their jobs." Niagara receives NewPage funds - MiningJournal.net | News, Sports, Jobs, Marquette Information | The Mining Journal
Way to go Mayor Bousley who got $500,000 from New Page. What did Steve Kagen and Jim Doyle get the people of Niagara. Can someone tell me. How many people from Niagara received jobs from the Bay Area Workforce Development? Well, Steve Kagen pretty much forgot about the people of Niagara (any news from Kagen's office)? I haven't heard. Jim Doyle is leaving town ( no second term) and training for the workers, well, how do you think that might have turned out? From JSOnline.
"In his 17 years administering workforce investment programs, James Golembeski said, he has never seen anything approaching the current mismatch between needs and resources. And the importance of retraining, he said, is greater than ever.
"When we come out of this recession, we're not going to go back to what we had," said Golembeski, executive director of the Bay Area Workforce Development Board in Green Bay. "The new workplace coming out of this is going to be more efficient, faster paced, more responsive to the global market than ever. And workers are going to need whole new sets of skills just to keep going."" Money for retraining displaced workers is running out - JSOnline
I have no information concerning the New Page workers in Niagara but this would seem to be the same song and dance you get from the BAWD. Mr. Golembeski is out of money (he calls it resources) and needs more tax payer money. What in God's names is he talking about? "More efficient, faster paced, more responsive to the global market", what jobs is he talking about? Are former mill and other laid off workers going to get the Noble prize for economics? I take that back, seems peace prizes come a dime a dozen.
Since Mr Golembeski and BAWD was a part to the retraining of workers at the Niagara mill and elsewhere, can we ask some questions about the Niagara workers? How many of the retrained workers got comparable or higher paying jobs? How many retrained workers are still out of work? How much money was spent on the workers and how much money was paid to BAWD? Does it matter if it's 2007. 2008 or 2009? What good does the BAWD do for the people of the area except living off the public dole. Wonder how much everyone at BAWD takes in salaries and benefits? What are their expenses when it comes to training? Just asking.
Three so called experts and groups who posed for holy pictures with laid off works and then promised them jobs and the bottom line on all this, we don't care and we need more money!
Hat's off to Mayor George Bousley for doing something for the people of Niagara. He delivered for the people of Niagara. GREAT job, maybe he should run for office or run retraining centers.
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