Comments on: Communication is key to success, says new Compass Minerals CEO

By: Miner Below

Miner Below — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 18:44:27 +0000

Just read a miner’s Facebook comments on his family having to eat Kraft Dinner for “several weeks” because of the layoff.
Come on, we all know that a shutdown is in the nature of virtually all mining. Please don’t try to tell anyone that this is the first and only maintenance shutdown in the history of Sifto (or Domtar).
We all knew that without a maintenance shutdown last year, we were headed for one this year.
I fully agree that the timing, and the company’s handling of the shutdown was poorly planned and executed, but the powers that be pull the strings, and that, as we know, will never change.
We all make decent money down there, and as hard as it may be, we should all plan ahead for events like these.
Maybe anyone who did not plan for this one will start planning for the next shutdown. And, if you do some planning, your family will not be forced to eat KD for weeks.

By: Temporary Miner

Temporary Miner — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 01:01:32 +0000

Really?
“During a town hall meeting with ALL employees”
That’s odd, as an employee (for several years now) I had no information given to me about this said meeting let alone him even coming to town.
“I do think that communications with employees is key.”
Hmmmm, I wonder when this is going to start? Unless he is referring to the two days’ notice I just received of ANOTHER layoff in the same year. I guess he is trying, at least he gave us two days unlike the other fellow that gave us the layoff notice at the end of our last shift.
How is it, Heather, that you always seem to get informed of things happening at Sifto before any of us workers???

By: Miner Below

Miner Below — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 23:40:52 +0000

K. John……perhaps the town should try to be a “Mine” town. Unless you hadn’t noticed, much of our industry has evaporated since Volvo left, and perhaps the entire community should be glad that Sifto can not move the salt deposits.
All of underground know that if they could, they would.

By: K.JOHN HAZLITT

K.JOHN HAZLITT — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 23:14:42 +0000

Great stuff, Fran Malecha. While I very much appreciate your concern and dedication perhaps you should ask Rowland, a person I very much respect, as to how you, Fran, can make the relationship better within our Town. While we are dependent on much of your input, we are NOT a Mine Town.

By: Dale Matthies

Dale Matthies — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 13:58:33 +0000

A number of years ago, an upper management person told me that a “boss” needs to be aware of the pulse of his organization to know whether it is healthy, sick, or dead. It sounds like this guy is going to attempt to do this. I hope for the sake of the mine, the employees, and the town that he is successful in doing so. It’s a pity that other bosses here, there, and everywhere are incapable of doing so, or refuse to do so.