The ad is posted on Careerbuilder.com and was posted by Madi Corporation. It reads, "Experienced pulp and paper mill employees needed for a potential labor dispute."
The job location says Franklin, Virginia - but the jobs are not in Franklin. Union mill workers at International Paper in Franklin say an ad like this points to one thing:
"Scab labor, all that is just pure scab labor, 100 percent. That would be, anybody that's a union member and especially as long as I've been one and an officer as long as I've been one, it would be a disgrace to even think you would do it," said Joe Davis, local 1488 union member.
Joe Davis has worked at International Paper for 31 years and has been a member of local 1488 of the United States Steelworkers of America Union the entire time. Although Davis knows he will soon be out of the job, union members like him are upset after seeing an ad like this.
"Don't put up an ad trying to fool our people. Our people are very smart. It didn't take them long to figure out what was going on," said Butch Bryant, Chapter 176 SEIU president.
"They believe that our people are desparate. They are taking advantage of a bad situation."
International Paper in Franklin will be closing up shop in the next few months. Although they may eventually be out of work, Franklin union members say that doesn't mean they would ever work as a replacement worker.
All three presidents of the unions that represent the employees at International Paper agree that unions are like a family or brotherhood, so accepting an ad like the one on Careerbuilder.com would be completely going against what they say unions are all about.
"When people go out and get replacement workers it's the ultimate sin so to speak in case somebody goes on strike," said Carroll Story, local 1488 union president.
"It's immoral. It's degrading to us."
"Ninety percent percent of our people don't believe in that, crossing picket lines, they never have and probably 99 percent of them never would."
Franklin mill workers do not seem to be accepting to the ad.
"Walk across the picket line, and that's bad news."