Getting laid (off)

Cinram is closing their Richmond, IN plant in a couple months. Just found out today. That sucks since I'm the bread winner in my house. Hope I can find a job before Cinram closes or I have to be on unemployment for too long. I doubt if I'll be able to pay the bills with just unemployment and my wife's salary.

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EDIT: Just want to quote this from pal-item for my own memory:

Company officials told workers and city officials that the Richmond plant at 1600 Rich Road would close this summer, a move that will idle 330 workers, including 259 production workers.

The closing will come in phases, company officials said, with the first wave coming June 16, the second June 30 and the final Aug. 28, according to a letter to Richmond Mayor Sally Hutton.

Seven management employees will continue to work for the company elsewhere, the company said.

Cinram manufactures and packages CDs and CD-ROMs and is the former PRC Tape Co. Cinram, which is headquartered in Toronto, Canada, and bought PRC when that company filed for bankruptcy in 1990.

About half of Cinram’s production workers were members of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers.

Company officials in Richmond, Columbus, Ohio and Toronto did not return phone messages left this afternoon seeking a comment.