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:: Saturday, July 03, 2004 ::
Woods jobs plentiful, but visas used up By CHUIN-WEI YAP, Portland Maine Press Herald
"There's a severe (labor) shortage in the woods," said Steve Banahan, sales manager for Moose River Lumber. "The guys that traditionally cut the woods and operate the cranes -- probably 30 to 40 percent of them used to be from Canada. They used to work under the H2B work visa. This year, other states used up all the H2B permits prior to the wood-cutting season, so they were not able to get (the visas)."
There is no American work force that is within geographic reach or has suitable skills to provide these services, Banahan said.
The shortage is the result of federal security policy that now restricts H2B visas to a quota of just 66,000 a year, Fisher said. That cap was reached by early March, cutting off Canadian labor and placing northern Maine's loggers in a position not seen in a century, according to Banahan.------------------------------------------- posted 6:16 AM :: reference link ::
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