Canada: Processors paying more than the set minimum price is not a sign of dissent

Published 2024년 6월 25일

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The Association of Seafood Producers (ASP) in Newfoundland and Labrador has not experienced a split, despite five processors offering a higher price for capelin than the panel-set minimum of 25 cents per pound for 2024, according to the association's executive director, Jeff Loder. This situation arose after the FFAW-Unifor union, which represents fish harvesters and plant workers, expressed dissatisfaction with the panel's pricing decision and threatened to withhold labor. The five processors have agreed to pay 30 cents per pound, a move the union has characterized as a breakdown of the ASP's bargaining powers, but Loder views it as a normal market fluctuation and an election ploy within the union.

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CORNER BROOK — Some processors agreeing to pay more for capelin than the price set by a provincial panel is not a sign of schism in the Association of Seafood Producers (ASP), says its executive director. Jeff Loder was reacting to a news release issued by FFAW-Unifor — the union that represents Newfoundland and Labrador fish harvesters and plant workers — that claimed five processors had broken away from the association to sign their own capelin pricing agreements with harvesters. Earlier in June, the province’s fish price-setting panel had settled the minimum price for capelin for 2024 by simply rolling over the same price from last year at 25 cents per pound. That was the price that had been offered this year by the ASP. The union called a press conference on June 20 to announce that its harvesters were not only unhappy with that price but were unwilling to fish for capelin for that price. Late on June 23, the union issued a press release announcing that five members of the ASP ...

Source: Saltwire