FFAW Demands Consequences for Royal Greenland

The FFAW is calling out Royal Greenland for operating in poor faith to the detriment of the inshore fishery and coastal communities.

FFAW is demanding provincial sanctions on the foreign-owned company.

“Since first being allowed to operate in this province, Royal Greenland has shown time and time again that they are not interested in ethical business practices,” says FFAW-Unifor Secretary-Treasurer Jason Spingle. “A company cannot be allowed to blatantly and repeatedly disregard labour standards and be permitted to keep their processing license.

There must be consequences,” Spingle says.

In the 2024 season, Royal Greenland, a crown corporation of the government of Denmark, has refused to purchase northern cod from harvesters, fraudulently falsified dates on lobster receipts to pay harvesters less than the negotiated minimum price for the week of sale, and tried to coerce sea cucumber harvesters into signing an agreement that would circumvent the agreed upon water loss in the agreed upon 2024 sea cucumber schedule according to the union.