The Union Forum - July-Aug 2008 - Fishermen, Food and Allied Workers

IN THIS EDITION... July - August 2008
Face-to-face
In July, the FFAW’s vice-president
for industrial-retail, Allan Moulton,
joined union secretary-treasurer David
Decker and chief industrial-retail negotiator
Ben Baker in visiting processing
plants along the northeast coast of
Newfoundland.
After meeting face-to-face with
workers everywhere from Jackson’s Arm
to Arnold’s Cove, Moulton says it is
clear that an adjustment program for
older workers, as well as finding ways to
recruit younger workers, are desperately
needed in the industry.
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FFAW industrial-retail VP, Allan Moulton,
chats with Beothic worker Nola Bungay.
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Earle McCurdy
David Decker
Lana Payne
MANAGING EDITOR
Jamie Baker
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Small fish, major impact
One of the few brighter
spots in the province’s
inshore fishery in recent
years has been caplin.
In this issue of The
Union Forum, we head
out to Eastport, Bonavista
Bay to check on this season’s
caplin fishery, and
talk about what needs to
be done to strengthen it in
the future.
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FFAW CAW
Contents/Regular features
President s message................... 3
Secretary Treasurer..................... 5
Editorial.....................................18
Negotiations ............................ 23
Cover story:
Plant worker Marie Warren sorts through fresh cod fillets at Icewater
Seafoods in Arnold’s Cove.
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TThhee UUnniioonn FFoorruumm,, the official magazine of the Fish, Food and Allied Workers’ Union
(FFAW/CAW), is distributed free of charge to Union members six times per year.
The FFAW/CAW is Newfoundland and Labrador’s largest private sector union, representing
20,000 working women and men throughout province, most of whom are employed in the fishing
industry. The Union also represents a diversity of workers in the brewing, hotel, hospitality,
retail, metal fabrication, window manufacturing and oil industries, and is proud to be affiliated
with the Canadian Auto Workers (CAW).
TThhee UUnniioonn FFoorruumm covers issues that matter to Union members - battles, victories and the pursuit
of economic and social justice. As a social Union, it is understood that lives extend beyond
the bargaining table and the workplace. The magazine will reflect on the struggle to make our
communities, our province and our country better for all citizens by participating in and influencing
the general direction of society.
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Industrial/Retail.........................26
Inshore...................................... 35
Sisterhood................................. 37
Flashbacks................................. 40
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