Union: Verso still owes some former Bucksport millworkers $357,000 in severance
Source: bangordailynews.com
By Darren Fishell
PORTLAND, Maine — The machinists union representing workers at Verso Paper’s former paper mill in Bucksport has filed a complaint with state officials arguing the company still owes most of its members about $357,000 in severance payments and that it could owe as much as $3 million across the entire workforce of more than 500.
Bill Cohen, spokesman for Verso in Maine, said Tuesday the company believes the payments it had approved by the Maine Department of Labor were correct.
Before the union complaint with the Maine Bureau of Labor Standards, the Maine attorney general’s office found no problem with those payments, asking on Feb. 13 for a Kennebec County Superior Court justice to confirm Verso met its severance obligations and shield the company from further legal action over that pay.
The union has objected to that motion as well, citing its labor department complaint in arguing the matter of severance pay remains unresolved.
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Darren Fishell | BDN
The Bucksport mill as seen Jan. 1, 2015.
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