Canada is having trouble competing in NAFTA because our wood is overpriced. Everybody handling sticks in this country wants to be able to work four months and take the rest of the year off.
A logging truck operator in Canada makes $300 to $350 or more a day. A faller working piece work can make $20,000 a month if he is good at what he does. A mill worker gets 25$ and hour to start with no education required. Then there is the shippers who all take a huge slice off the top.
Then there are stumpages for the Provincial coffers and tarifs for the Feds who also want to get rich on our resources. Wood is the most overpriced material we can possibly export. When the dollar was low, we had an advantage. We took that advantage and the industry prospered and got fat.
It is now too fat and needs to lose some of that fat and wages have to come in line with the rest of the population, who by the way are slinging retail for $12.00 an hour with BA's and BSc's. Get real Forest Industry.
You need to go on a diet. You should have saved or diversified for these normal rainy days. Times fluctuate and its not "Mine the Trees Time' anymore. Your past sins of "Taking the Best and Leaving the Rest" is coming back to haunt you and now you have to share the remainder with bark beetles just like the $12.00 clerk has to share his wages with PetroCanada.
Jormawankenobe
Copyright 2008 Jorma Jyrkkanen
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