What will happen to the Hap Warnke Lumber Mill?
The proposed alignment of Spring Hill Drive and Centennial Road will cross through the Hap Warnke Lumber Mill site and may require the mill to relocate, reconfigure their operations, or close their business. At this time, IMMC is unaware of which of these options are being considered by the business owners. 4) Will the jobs be union jobs? It is the workforce, not the IMMC, which will make the decision as to whether or not the jobs at the Idaho-Maryland Mine or at Golden Bear Ceramics will be union or non-union. Workers have the right to involve the National Labor Relations Board to facilitate a vote to unionize. 5) What is the unemployment rate in Grass Valley and, assuming there is a low unemployment rate, will the employees to fill the mine’s 400 jobs be imported from outside of Nevada County? According the California Employment Development Department the April 2007 unemployment rate for Nevada County was estimated at 4.8 percent and the unemployment rate for Grass Valley was estimat
