Ocean Choice president Blaine Sullivan talks to protesters and FFAW representatives on the road to the fish plant in Triton on Tuesday. When I looked in our database for words like "FFAW," "protest" and "demonstration," lots of results — dozens of them — came back. Last year, workers represented by the Fish, Food & Allied Workers union blocked the Delta Hotel in St. John's and took to the streets to protest federal quota cuts. Richard Gillett, an organizer with a group called the Federation of Independent Seafood Harvesters, staged a hunger strike in 2017 outside DFO offices in St. John's. About 46 per cent of fish plant workers are 55 or older — that's more than double than in the rest of the provincial workforce.

Source: CBC News May 02, 2020 08:30 UTC