Lincoln millworkers to receive federal job retraining aid
The U.S. Department of Labor will allow approximately 200 millworkers who were laid off from Lincoln Paper & Tissue in December to receive job retraining assistance from the federal government.
The Bangor Daily News reported that the company filed a petition with the Labor Department in December seeking eligibility for the laid-off workers under the Trade Adjustment Assistance program, which provides job retraining, wage subsidies and re-employment services for workers laid off due to foreign competition.
The newspaper reported that Maine’s congressional delegation on Thursday announced that federal labor officials have certified the petition.
In early December, company officials cited the Nov. 2 explosion of a recovery boiler in the mill and the decision of a major customer to outsource paper production to Indonesia as factors in its decision to lay off 200 workers indefinitely.
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