Gulls flock to the Trident Seafood plant in Kodiak on Oct. 3, 2022. Job and wage data indicates that seafood processors faced difficulties in finding enough workers in 2023. (Photo by Yereth ...
Nathanael quickly learned the routine. Rip the legs off a crab. Clean them with giant spinning wire brushes. Toss them down a chute. Repeat. “Sometimes when you kill a crab, the brain splatters,” he ...
Three former seafood processing workers filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday accusing a Fall River plant of illegally employing them as 15-year-olds and forcing them to work in dangerous, discriminatory ...
RANEY ARONSON-RATH: In recent years, an unprecedented number of unaccompanied minors have arrived at the U. S. border. A recent investigation reveals how some of these minors end up working underage ...
HOMER — On a brilliant spring morning, Buck Laukitis, a longtime fisherman from this Kenai Peninsula town, stood at the city dock watching his catch come ashore. Crew members aboard Laukitis’ boat, ...
(The Center Square) – Legislation to exempt caps on visas for foreign workers in the seafood industry has been introduced in the Senate, with supporters saying the workers are critical to the industry ...
Alaska seafood processors hired fewer people in 2023 but paid them more and relied more on nonresidents to fill the jobs, a state analysis shows. The employment trends are what would be expected in an ...