Kagen Brings NewPage Workers’ Stories to Washington [WBAY-TV]
By Sarah Thomsen
While both NewPage mills in Kimberly and Niagara sit quiet now, halfway across the country the mills are still creating noise.
It’s only been a couple days since the mill in Kimberly produced its last roll of paper, putting 475 people out of jobs. Since news of the plant’s closure, workers and even lawmakers rallied to keep it open, and now to reopen it.
Wednesday night that fight went all the way to Washington.
“I rise this evening to present some of the stories from Northeast Wisconsin, a region of the country known as Paper Valley,” Representative Steve Kagen said.
With blown-up photographs of families standing behind him, Kagen stood on the floor of the House of Representatives.
Kagen, who represents Kimberly and Niagara workers as an 8th District Congressman, is trying to put a name and face on the now jobless paperworkers to show other lawmakers what’s happening back in Northeast Wisconsin.
