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Author: Courtney Glode

MEDIA RELEASE: Fiona Leaves Wake of Devastation for Inshore Harvesters

MEDIA RELEASE: Fiona Leaves Wake of Devastation for Inshore Harvesters September 26, 2022 Professional fish harvesters on the southwest coast of the province are left reeling after post-tropical storm Fiona
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CALL FOR INTEREST: WOMEN’S REGIONAL MEETINGS

CALL FOR INTEREST: WOMEN’S REGIONAL MEETINGS  Are you interested in participating in FFAW-Unifor’s Women’s Regional Meetings? Women from all sectors of the Union are invited to express their interest in
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FFAW Launches Industrial Focused Safety Campaign

FFAW Launches Industrial Focused Safety Campaign September 15, 2022 ST. JOHN’S, NL – FFAW-Unifor, the largest private sector trade-union in the province, is launching a campaign focused on health and
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Special Bulletin – LCC statement on Seafood Watch rating of Canadian Lobster

This ranking is not based on sustainability concerns for those species, but rather the potential impact of gear entanglements on the North Atlantic Right Whale (NARW).
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Fall Shrimp Price Negotiations

Fall shrimp negotiations were anything but good faith negotiations.  ASP and the processors asked harvesters to continue taking the below market price of $0.90/lb just to finish the shrimp season. 
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Labour Day Weekend Message

Unions like the FFAW work to better the lives of our members. Better pay. Better benefits. Better protection. Unions – for better.
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CLOSURE WITHOUT CAUSE: Unprecedented Levels of Mackerel Call into Question Minister’s Decision to Close Fishery

“I’ve been at this for over 30 years and in all my years fishing, I have never seen better signs of mackerel – period.”
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WE’RE HIRING

Now accepting applications for Energy Industry Liaison and Student Administrative Assistant.
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Profit over people: Royal Greenland isn’t here to help Newfoundlanders

Both plant workers and fish harvesters in Newfoundland and Labrador are impacted by ASP’s attempts to squeeze harvesters’ shares in the market – the hundreds of hours of lost work and the millions of dollars of resources still sitting in the water. 
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