Confederation Cove Mussel owner strongly objects to Minister Kenney's foreign worker stance
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Journal Pioneer] By Colin MacLean - September 2014 -
BORDEN–CARLETON, Stephen Stewart currently has five temporary foreign workers employed at his Confederation Cove mussel plant in Borden-Carleton.
Those workers have been employed nearly year-round at the plant for several years and are great contributors, reliable and highly efficient. People any business would be happy to have, according to their employer
They are also at risk of being sent home.
Replacing them with similar quality local people, said Stewart, will be impossible.
“We’ve had job adds posted online and nobody is calling,” said Stewart. Stewart doesn’t like the minister’s implication that local fish plants are keeping Islanders out of work by using the TFW system and that processors shouldn’t need foreign workers because there is a supposedly large pool of workers out there.
“I’m trying to hire people – then you see a story where it’s our fault that people aren’t working? That’s just crazy,” he said.
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