Let unappreciated workers leave first

In a recent article in the Herald, “What next for K-C property,” and for all of the subsequent letter writers in response, please take a moment to think about the 200 employees who are still working at the site until the final door closing before figuring out what to do with the property they are working on.

It is hard enough to stomach the closure of the site for the team members still working, and it is even harder to stomach reading what all of the tree-hugging vultures want to do with the property. We are proud of the mayor of Everett for standing firm on the property only being used for industrial use, hopefully creating some more living-wage jobs for Everett.

If you truly care about the community we live in, write a letter to Kimberly-Clark Corporate and ask them why they did not bother paying the employees their final week’s pay until one week late, and why the severance checks and unused vacation pay from last year has not yet arrived for most of the laid-off work force. They will more than likely give you their concocted rhetoric derived from their staff of 40 attorneys and delivered by their spokesman.

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What we are pretty sure of is that whatever they tell you probably won’t be the truth. When you make your next trip to the store, think about the box of Kleenex, Viva towels or Scott bath tissue you are about to put in your cart. As Kimberly-Clark told us, it is cheaper to make it overseas than to make it in Everett.

Dean Zevenbergen

Marysville

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