PAGO PAGO, American Samoa — Nearly half of the 800 workers StarKist Co. planned to lay off at its American Samoa tuna cannery this year will lose their jobs this weekend.
“The first phase of layoffs will commence on Aug. 28, affecting 380 employees,” StarKist Samoa General Manager Brett Butler testified Thursday before the U.S. territory’s House Commerce Committee.
He said the rest of the layoffs would occur in October, but no firm date has been set. Read the rest of this entry »
Samoa is investigating the possibility of setting up a tuna loining plant on the island of Savaii – a project that would create 1200 new jobs. Samoa’s Deputy Prime Minister, Misa Telefoni, told the Pacific Investment Summit, in Sydney today, that the Samoan government has been holding high-level talks with the United States company Starkist – which owns a tuna cannery in neighbouring, American Samoa.
Source: Radio Australia
The American Samoa Governor Togiola Tulafono has announced that Tri Marine International is negotiating to acquire Samoa Packing’s Chicken of the Sea’s tuna plant in Atu’u.
In a statment, Tongiola says the purchase agreement with COS is conditional on Tri Marine securing a long term ground lease and other agreements with the Government. Read the rest of this entry »
The American Samoa Department of Commerce has approved a new business licence for Tri Marine International Incoporated, one of the largest tuna suppliers in the world.
Tri Marine has been one of the companies in negotiations with the Government to take over the old Samoa Packing plant which closed nearly a year ago. Read the rest of this entry »
Employees from the Star Kist Samoa tuna cannery in American Samoa have begun to receive redundancy letters.
In May, the cannery announced it would be laying off between 600 to 800 staff from the plant which employs up to 3000 people.
KHJ News says up to 300 employees will lose their jobs in the first set of cutbacks and another 300 job losses will be announced next month. Read the rest of this entry »
Two Tri Marine International officials were on island Monday reportedly touring COS Samoa Packing plant, and later meeting with Gov. Togiola Tulafono. Samoa News became aware of the visit after two News staffers who were at the airport noticed a private plane on the tarmac, and asked around for details.
There was no immediate reply to Samoa News e-mail questions sent yesterday to Tri Marine officials, Anthony Vuoso, Vince Torre, and Frank Mateljan— all based in San Diego— seeking comments on the visit to Pago Pago. Read the rest of this entry »
