The union hall in Terrace Bay, Ont., was packed wall to wood-panelled wall with restless steelworkers, pink-cheeked from the January wind whipping off Lake Superior.
People checked out pamphlets about applying for unemployment insurance and looked through lists of job search websites piled on a table at the back of the room as they came to terms with the shutdown of the AV Terrace Bay pulp mill earlier this month.
Terrace Bay is the kind of northwestern Ontario town where everyone knows each other — and if you’re not a union pulp mill worker, chances are you used to be or are at least related
