Over 100 employees at Heli-One Composites in Gander - formerly known as CHC Composites - were given layoff notices on Wednesday as the company grapples with the faltering economy.
Remaining employees at the Gander location, which manufactures parts for helicopters, will stay on through a work-share arrangement, working four days a week and receiving Employment Insurance for the fifth.
Massive layoffs at Heli-One
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June 25, 2009
- Published on July 1, 2010
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- Plaster and Painter
- - July 2, 2010 at 14:56:02
I have been living in Alberta for the past 12 years everybody tells me I should come home and start my own Busniss I wounder when I see all the layoffs think I should Let me know
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- Jeff
- - July 2, 2010 at 14:50:13
Yeah, Ed, capitalism is going gang-busters. Wake up, corporate america has been subsidized by Washington since the day one. What do you think the military is for?
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- Happy Here
- - July 2, 2010 at 14:48:56
In response to Nasty Nate, what will be done? is the question. Too bad the Nates of the world don't offer any ideas, or better yet get up and do something.
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- Nasty
- - July 2, 2010 at 14:46:46
But Stevie and his twin Danny Castro told us that the economy was fine, and we in Canada and Newfoundland were protected from events such as we see day in and day out.
Guess they are just too full of it to see the forest from the trees.
Now the question remains, what will be done to bring a sustainable industry to the people of this province? Government work is not sustainable since once everyone is forced off the island we will not have a need for government workers either.
Time might be here to face facts, the island is sinking and we better plug the holes or get off before we go down with it. -
- Ed
- - July 2, 2010 at 14:45:50
First of all we need to stop expecting the government (read other taxpayers) to bail out or subsidize failing companies or getting companies to set up where they would not ordinarily do so. If a venture is viable private industry will do it without government monies.
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- Plaster and Painter
- - July 1, 2010 at 21:42:43
I have been living in Alberta for the past 12 years everybody tells me I should come home and start my own Busniss I wounder when I see all the layoffs think I should Let me know
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- Jeff
- - July 1, 2010 at 21:32:46
Yeah, Ed, capitalism is going gang-busters. Wake up, corporate america has been subsidized by Washington since the day one. What do you think the military is for?
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- Happy Here
- - July 1, 2010 at 21:30:37
In response to Nasty Nate, what will be done? is the question. Too bad the Nates of the world don't offer any ideas, or better yet get up and do something.
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- Nasty
- - July 1, 2010 at 21:26:56
But Stevie and his twin Danny Castro told us that the economy was fine, and we in Canada and Newfoundland were protected from events such as we see day in and day out.
Guess they are just too full of it to see the forest from the trees.
Now the question remains, what will be done to bring a sustainable industry to the people of this province? Government work is not sustainable since once everyone is forced off the island we will not have a need for government workers either.
Time might be here to face facts, the island is sinking and we better plug the holes or get off before we go down with it. -
- Ed
- - July 1, 2010 at 21:25:35
First of all we need to stop expecting the government (read other taxpayers) to bail out or subsidize failing companies or getting companies to set up where they would not ordinarily do so. If a venture is viable private industry will do it without government monies.
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