Nearly 200 employees at periodical and book supplier TNG's Richmond plant, which is owned by Vancouver billionaire Jim Pattison, will lose their jobs April 1 when the facility shuts down. And new technology is being blamed for the pending closure.
"It's technology and seeing everything move to a digital venue," said Teamsters Local 213 official Anita Dawson, the business representative and union bargaining agent with TNG.
The shutdown, said Dawson, will throw 183 workers out of work in the Lower Mainland and also at a couple of small distribution centres on Vancouver Island.
TNG was previously known as The News Group. TNG Canada president Peter Olson said in an email to The Vancouver Sun that the closure of the Vauxhall Place plant in north Richmond will, ultimately, result in the loss of 66 full-time and 117 part-time jobs.
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