2 March, 2006
(Date)
Mr Jukka Härmälä
Chief Executive Officer
Stora Enso Oyj
Kanavaranta 1, PO Box 309
FIN-00160 Helsinki
FINLAND
Transmitted to Fax Number +358 2046 21206
or to E-Mail [email protected]
Dear Mr. Härmälä:
We have been informed by the ICEM, the Global Union Federation, of the lockout that your company has imposed on the workers of the Port Hawkesbury Mill in Nova Scotia who are members of the Communications, Energy, Paperworkers (CEP) Union of Canada.
After going 20 months without a current collective labour agreement and working during that period for the betterment of Stora Enso, we find it appalling that your company has locked out these 600 workers in efforts to deviate from the pattern labour agreement in Eastern Canada that has already been negotiated with all other paper companies doing business there.
We call on you to use your offices to immediately resume negotiations with the union and to negotiate a fair and just agreement that meets the pattern for the pulp and paper sector in Eastern Canada.
Sincerely Yours,
(signed)
(Name,
Position,
Name of the Union)