Amicus in UK Resists Paper Mill Closure

UK’s BPB Paperboard announced suddenly 3 March that it was closing a plasterboard liner-paper mill in Aberdeen, Scotland, throwing 276 workers out of jobs. The announcement of the closure, to occur in June, brought sharp rebuke from ICEM affiliate Amicus. The UK union’s Graphical, Paper and Media Section recently went through a 90-day consultation period with paper mill management of the building materials company, and no mention of the closure occurred. “The decision to close had evidently been made well before the formal consultative period started,” said Amicus’ Scottish Branch Secretary Jimmy Robertson.