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Ontario-Based Erwin Hymer Files For Receivership, Terminates Employees
Editor's Note: This news item was retrieved and first published through The Star's website.
RV Pro reports on a story by The Star, stating that about 900 employees are out of work at Cambridge, Ontario-based recreational-vehicle maker Erwin Hymer North America, formerly known as Roadtrek Motorhomes. Employees were called into a company meeting Friday afternoon and told they were terminated, effective immediately, assembly line lead William Singleton said in an interview with The Star. After the company filed for receivership last week, and cut out of a multi-billion-dollar takeover deal, this was the result.
As quoted in the article by Josh Rubin, Singleton said: "There were a lot of emotional people in that room. Some people were angry. Some people were crying. Some people had been there 30 or 40 years." The only employees still left were a handful of payroll workers to make sure people got their remaining paychecks. An email request for comment to a U.S.-based communications company which had been representing the company wasn’t immediately returned. The personal voicemail box of Erwin Hymer North America CEO Jim Hammill was full.
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