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Article: Not out of the woods Logging industry observers expect a wave of layoffs in Maine
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- Bangor Daily News Bangor, ME
- Article date:
- February 28, 2009
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HOULTON - James Hogan was a logger at Louisiana Pacific Corp. for
21 years when he was first laid off in 2004. He spent four years
scrounging odd jobs and selling personal property to keep solvent
before getting hired as a woodloader at Treeline Inc. of Lincoln in
July 2008.
The 46-year-old town man had almost recovered from that financial
disaster, clearing $600 for a 55-hour workweek, when Treeline laid
him off on Jan. 28. Since then, Hogan has searched for logging work
from Fort Fairfield to Bangor without success.
"I am sitting home here doing nothing and it's driving me crazy,"
Hogan said Wednesday. "I am calling people I know, looking on the
computer, doing everything I can, but there ...