UFAWU-Unifor alerts members to Canadian Fishing Company plans for George Hills Way Main Plant

Things may become even more quiet on the Prince Rupert 
waterfront if a notice for UFAWU-Unifor members brings
a relocation of work from the Main CFC plant to
its Seal Cove facility

UFAWU-Unifor, the union which represents fish plant shore-workers in the Prince Rupert area hosted a recent meeting for all of its Northern Shoreworkers. 

With the October session one called to bring workers up to date on apparent plans from Canadian Fish to move work from the main plant on George Hills Way to their Seal Cove facility.

The call for the membership meeting was issued in late October through the UFAWU-Unifor Social Media feed.

Canadian Fish has yet to make public note of any plans for their main plant, with no updates through their corporate website, a portal which still features the Main plant on George Hills Way as part of their active facility listings.

Still, the notice for workers would suggest that some kind of change is ahead towards the local industry, one which has seen a reduced workforce over the last decade, with Canadian Fish scaling back much of the work that they have done in the past in Prince Rupert.

The main facility now mostly one used for freezing incoming fish and then for shipping it out of town by truck.

An evolution that has changed the fishing industry footprint in Prince Rupert significantly over the last ten years and resulted in the loss of a large volume of jobs in the community.

A union notice last month indicates that the Canadian Fish
Company is planning to move more of the work from the 
main plant on George Hills Way to its Seal Cove location

Should they decided to exit the main plant on the Prince Rupert waterfront, it would make for another step in the ongoing reduction of the commercial fishing industry in the region. 

Not to mention to leave a large industrial asset on the waterfront for the most part shut down and awaiting its fate.

In addition to the Prince Rupert facilities, Canadian Fish also has operations at two locations in Richmond and three in Alaska, including a plant in Ketchikan.

More notes on the fishery on the North Coast can be reviewed through our archive page.

Cross posted from the North Coast Review.