PEI Minister unmoved as PEI fishermen's and processor's groups unite in call for foreign workers
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [CBC] - September 30, 2014 -
The Prince Edward Island Fishermen’s Association and Seafood Processors Association spent two hours Sunday with Employment Minister Jason Kenney trying to change his mind about the Temporary Foreign Workers Program.
The purpose of the meeting was to explain to the minister why they couldn’t find local Islanders to staff their operations.
Dennis King with the processors said “We advertise, we work hard we try to recruit. We do everything we can, the workers we have, the majority which are local, are good workers, we're glad to have them we want to continue to keep them, we know they need EI because its a seasonal industry. We're not here advocating to get rid of the EI system."
King says the real problems will occur next spring if plants can't get enough workers to process lobster...
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