Hundreds of employees in Atlantic Canada’s dairy industry will be laid off this spring.

Agropur, which owns Farmers Dairy, and Saputo both announced 346 employees will be out of a job by April 1.

...And this is their reasoning:

“The announced measures are part of the continual analysis of our overall activities as we maintain our efforts to pursue additional efficiencies while strengthening our market presence,” said Sandy Vassiadis, communications for Saputo

“The Atlantic region is the only region where we merchandise our products to customers,” adds Vassiadis. “We find it necessary to align our go-to-market strategy and apply some changes by transferring all of the Atlantic region’s merchandising duties to retailers.”

*Pathetic*

for Saputo, 187 employees will be let go. That includes 66 full-time and 121 part-time positions, mainly in Newfoundland and Nova Scotia.

In total, 159 of the jobs lost are within Agropur, 62 of which are full-time.  It breaks down to be 57 in New Brunswick, 78 in Nova Scotia, 24 in Newfoundland and Labrador.

I propose a boycott of these two major companies to show our support to the emloyees affected by the layoffs if they go through with it. We, as Atlantic Canadians, must stick together.

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