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Quebecor World to have voluntary layoffs

Thursday, July 2, 2009

Quebecor World's Dyersburg plant will soon have voluntary layoffs.

Tracy Liddell, human resources manger for Quebecor World-Dyersburg said the layoffs would only be for one week.

She also said employees took a salary cut in April of this year.

"There was a 10 percent cut across the board," said Liddell.

Further questions were referred to their media specialist, Tony Ross, who did not give a response.

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To bad -- looks like the plant my be going some were else or is closing

-- Posted by Duck Hunter on Fri, Jul 3, 2009, at 5:32 AM

Probably overseas! Just a matter of time.

-- Posted by Jazzybrad on Fri, Jul 3, 2009, at 7:12 AM

Another one bites the dust. Thank you federal tax and spend big government socialist and greedy capitalist politicians. Have they thought all this power grab thing through? Who will pay taxes when no one is working? Mao Tse Tung said power flows from the barrel of a gun. Looks like there's going to be a power struggle in our future.

-- Posted by A Citizen on Fri, Jul 3, 2009, at 1:30 PM

This plant doesnt need to go anyway but the people there do like tracy liddell, jeff messersmith(prick) and many more. They do care about the employees there and jeff doesnt care, he is backstabbing, two face lying piece of crap. Anyone working there knows exactly what i am talking about. Just ask half of the MIC their they will they you so.

-- Posted by dyersburgjc on Fri, Jul 3, 2009, at 4:42 PM

i would hate to see so many people loose their jobs, but i would start cutting jobs of those whom are making 80000 to 100000 a year doing nothing like many i know there(JM offset press room).

-- Posted by dyersburgjc on Fri, Jul 3, 2009, at 4:45 PM

George Bush was a socialist? No, wait he was the "BORROW" and spend right wing radical chickenhawk that was in power before the guy now who is trying to fix the problems left by lil cowboy boots.

Count up all the money spent in Iraq, the interest on the money borrowed to keep this country running because big business and the wealthy were lining their pockets with tax breaks and you will see where most of our problems came from.

Get your facts straight turdbreath.

-- Posted by bacongrease on Fri, Jul 3, 2009, at 4:52 PM

I agree with bacon grease. We have spent over a billion dollars in Iraq with a projected total cost of over 3 billion not to mention the 1st bailout by Bush over 700 billion dollars (unaccounted for) couple that with Bush's deregulation crusade in his second term which allowed banks to raise interest rates and tack on unwarranted penalties and late fees as they saw fit. Deregulation also opened up loopholes which allowed U.S. companies to ship jobs to cheaper foreign labor then we turned around and imported those same products which should've been produced here in the first place. Then factor in gas prices and gas price induced inflation on every other goods and services and the discretionary money people used to spend that fueled this country's economy went to just pay necessities.Only 53 billion of Obamas 700 billion dollar stimulus has been implemented and most of that has went to make medicare and medicaid payments. Most won't go into effect until the end of the year.Give his policies a chance to take effect for gods sake. We gave the previous idiot 8 years to dig this hole. Its going to take longer than 7 months to crawl out.

-- Posted by DonnieH. on Tue, Jul 7, 2009, at 6:51 PM

Okay! Okay! Wait just a minute! Quebecor World (Worldwide!) was in SERIOUS trouble WAY before George "Dubya" Bush started screwing up the global economy!

It all stems from the ineptitude of one man, Pierre Karl Peladeau, the CEO of Quebecor World, Inc. He's the son of Quebecor's founder, Pierre Peladeau who passed away in 1997.

In 1998 World Color was merged with Quebecor Printing, Inc. The following year, Peladeau decided it would be a "good idea" to send some of the work from the southern plants further north, including Canada.

The Dresden, TN plant, which printed paperback books, was a consistant money maker for World Color but Pierre decided to send all their work to the Buffalo, NY facility. Because that plant was union, it was going to cost the customers (Publishing companies) twice the price to have the books printed in NY.

Quebecor immediately lost 3 major customers!

That's just the tip of the iceburg!

Over the next several years, Peladeau has consistantly made bad business decisions and that's the reason Quebecor World is in Chapter 11 Bankruptcy now!

Read this:http://www.contenu.nu/pkp.html

It'll give you a little more insight as to just how bad a business man he really is!

-- Posted by Darth Sidious on Thu, Jul 9, 2009, at 6:27 AM

"Further questions were referred to their 'media specialist,' Tony Ross, who did not give a response."

That's because he's nothing more than a "lackey" who doesn't know whether to s*%t or go blind!

-- Posted by Darth Sidious on Thu, Jul 9, 2009, at 6:54 AM

I heard some of the layoffs weren't too voluntary, more like mandatory!

-- Posted by EARLinLenox on Fri, Jul 10, 2009, at 7:37 PM

The two biggest "do nothings" there are Tracy Liddell and Tony Ross. Tracy is the most unprofessional person in Human Resource Department and she is the very reason for the low moral in the Dyersburg facility.Then there is Tony Ross "media specialist" huh, never has a comment on anything. Well he's never available either while at work. Thats the problem with that department, overpayed, overstaffed and never seen out on the floor in the plant where they can make the biggest impact. The plant does not need to close, they just need a few more changes in management there starting with Tracy and Tony and things there will immediately be better.

-- Posted by BAD MOJO on Mon, Jul 13, 2009, at 8:45 AM