Aluminium / Ormet : 237 still off jobs

Tom Byers is glad Ormet Corp. made it through 2012 without laying off nearly 1,000 employees, but he would like to see the 237 who are out of work return to their jobs.

“We have about 600 on the job right now,” said Byers, president of United Steelworkers Local 5724 at the Ormet Hannibal Primary Aluminum Reduction Plant. “That is what we have with four of six potlines running.”

Last summer, Ormet issued a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act notice regarding the possibility of laying off 998 employees, including 837 union workers and 161 members of management. Byers said the WARN notice expired Dec. 31, meaning the company does not appear to be in position for such massive layoffs.

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