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Economic Support Proposal Campaign

August 3, 2023

Federal Minister Carla Qualtrough rejected the Union’s request for changes to Employment Insurance qualifications this year. Help is still needed for those facing a 70% drop in earnings this year.

The Union’s Economic Support Proposal for fish harvesters including owner-operators and crew members, plant workers and other affected fishery workers. This income supplement will help those maintain their connection to the fishery, to remain in their communities until next season.

Call your MP and MHA and let them know this help is needed.

FEDERAL MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT FOR NL:

🔴Seamus O’Regan (St. John’s South – Mount Pearl) 709-772-4608
🔴Gudie Hutchings (Long Range Mountains) Corner Brook: 709-637-4540, St. Anthony: 709-454-3253, Stephenville: 709-643-4189
🔴Yvonne Jones (Labrador) L’Anse Au Loup: 709-927-5210
🔴Churence Rogers (Bonavista-Burin-Trinity) Clarenville: 709-466-6502, Grand Bank: 709-832-1383, Centreville: 709-678-9026
🔵Clifford Small (Coast of Bays-Central-Notre Dame) 709-489-8470
🔴Ken McDonald (Avalon) 709-834-3424
🔴Joanne Thomas (St. John’s East) 709-772-7171

PROVINCIAL MEMBERS OF HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY:

🔴Brian Warr (Baie Verte-Green Bay) (709) 673-3654
🔵Craig Pardy (Bonavista) (709) 468-2132
🔴Andrew Parsons (Burgeo-La Poile) (709) 695-3585
🔴Paul Pike (Burin-Grand Bank) (709) 832-2530
🔵Joedy Wall (Cape St. Francis) (709) 729-6979
🔴Steve Crocker (Carbonear-Trinity-Bay de Verde) (709) 596-8194
🔴Lisa Dempster (Cartwright-L’Anse au Clair) (709) 931-2118
🔵David Brazil (Conception Bay East – Bell Island) (709) 729-0334
🔵 Barry Petten (Conception Bay South) (709) 834-6180
🔴Gerry Byrne (Corner Brook) (709) 729-3580
🔵 Pleaman Forsey (Exploits) (709) 258-2519
🔵 Loyola O’Driscoll (Ferryland) (709) 729-1390
🔴Derrick Bragg (Fogo Island-Cape Freels) (709) 536-2678
🔴Elvis Loveless (Fortune Bay-Cape La Hune) (709) 885-3067
🔴John Haggie (Gander) (709) 256-3729
🔵 Chris Tibbs (Grand Falls-Windsor-Buchans) (709) 489-3409
🔴Pam Parsons (Habour Grace-Port de Grave) (709) 786-1372
🔵 Helen Conway Ottenheimer (Harbour Main) (709) 229-0160
⚪️Eddie Joyce (Humber – Bay of Islands) (709) 634-7883
🔴Andrew Furey (Humber-Gros Morne) (709) 635-0132
🟠Jordan Brown (Labrador West) (709) 944-4881
🔴Perry Trimper (Lake Melville) (709) 896-7975
🔴Derek Bennett (Lewisporte-Twilingate) (709) 535-2131
🔴Lucy Stoyles(Mount Pearl North) (709) 729-1526
⚪️Paul Lane (Mount Pearl-Southlands) (709) 729-2231
🔴Sarah Stoodley (Mount Scio) (709) 729-3083
🔴Sherry Gambin Walsh (Placentia-St.Mary’s) (709) 227-1304
🔵Jeff Dwyer (Placentia West – Bellevue) (709) 279-2912
🔴Krista Lynn Howell (St. Barbe – L’Anse aux Meadows) (709) 454-2633
🔴Scott Reid (St. George’s – Humber) (709) 646-3110
🟠Jim Dinn (St. John’s Centre) (709) 729-2638
🔴John Abbott (St. John’s East – Quidi Vidi) (709) 729-3709
🔴Siobhan Coady (St. John’s West) (709) 729-2449
🔵 Tony Wakeham (Stephenville-Port au Port) (709) 643-0813
🔵 Lloyd Parrott (Terra Nova) (709) 466-4165
🔵 Paul Dinn (Topsail-Paradise) (709) 729-6670
🟠Lela Evans (Torngat Mountains) (709) 729-039
🔴Bernard Davis (Virginia Waters-Pleasantville) (709) 729-5980
🔴Tom Osbourne (Waterford Valley) (709) 729-4882
🔴John Hogan (Windsor Lake) (709) 729-3529

Dr. Erin Carruthers

Dr. Erin Carruthers is the Science Director and Senior Fisheries Scientist with the Fish, Food and Allied Workers Union (FFAW-Unifor), which is the labour union that represents the owner-operator fleet in Newfoundland and Labrador. The FFAW is committed to research and management that supports healthy oceans, fisheries, and coastal communities. Dr. Carruthers received her Ph. D. in Biology from Memorial University in 2011 followed by a postdoctoral fellowship with the Centre for Fisheries Ecosystems Research. Before coming to Newfoundland, Erin worked as a Research Biologist with Fisheries and Oceans Canada at the St. Andrews Biological Station. Her current research program is co-constructed with fish harvesters and includes research on coastal fishing communities, collaborative longline and trap surveys, and best practices for the avoidance, handling and release of unwanted catch.