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File photo outside Cargill’s beef slaughter and packing plant at High River, Alta. on May 6, 2020. (Photo: Reuters/Todd Korol)
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Strike averted at Cargill’s High River beef plant

Deal that hikes wages by 21 per cent and offers large bonuses receives majority backing

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Workers at Cargill’s beef packing plant in southern Alberta have voted in favour of a contract that will hike wages by 21 per cent and provide improved health benefits. “The contract is the best of its kind and presented unprecedented gains in this time of economic and political uncertainty,” United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW)
File photo outside Cargill’s beef slaughter and packing plant at High River, Alta. on May 6, 2020. (Photo: Reuters/Todd Korol)
Beef cattle, Livestock

Cargill beef plant workers to vote on new negotiated offer

High River workers otherwise headed for strike or lockout Monday

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Workers at Cargill’s major beef slaughter and packing plant in Alberta will vote this week on a new offer which it’s hoped will avert a strike or lockout, both due to start Monday. The new offer follows a “marathon” of negotiations Tuesday between Cargill representatives and the bargaining committee for United Food and Commercial Workers
Manitoba Beef Producers wants the province to expand the list of eligible costs and encourage uptake among cattle producers.
Beef cattle, News

Manitoba Beef Producers calls for producers to tap AgriRecovery

Beef producers have the AgriRecovery funds they pushed for, now it’s time to use them

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Manitoba Beef Producers (MBP) is urging farmers to use the AgriRecovery funds promised to the industry. The sector is now over 2-1/2 months past the announcement of AgriRecovery program details. Why it matters: Manitoba Beef Producers says the sector should try to use up current AgriRecovery programs, especially if they want to convince government to
File photo outside Cargill’s beef slaughter and packing plant at High River, Alta. on May 6, 2020. (Photo: Reuters/Todd Korol)
Beef cattle, Livestock

Cargill serves lockout notice on High River workers

Company 'willing to keep meeting' after offer rejected

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Updated — Whether in a strike or a lockout, workers at one of Canada’s biggest beef slaughter plants took another step toward the picket line this week by voting to reject the company’s latest contract offer. A vote conducted Tuesday and Wednesday by the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 401 went to the
(Dave Bedard photo)
Beef cattle, Livestock

High River beef plant workers to vote on Cargill offer

UFCW bargaining committee is recommending nay

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Workers on the verge of striking at Cargill’s major beef cattle slaughter plant at High River, Alta. will vote this week on a new contract offer from the company. However, the union bargaining committee for the workers, represented by the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 401, is recommending employees vote against the proposal.
A Western blot analysis, used to detect specific proteins in tissue samples, is used to confirm BSE in cattle. (Peggy Greb photo courtesy ARS/USDA)
Beef cattle, Livestock, Markets

Brazil plays down BSE risk in suspect cases in people

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Sao Paulo/Rio de Janeiro | Reuters — Brazil’s agriculture ministry said that two cases reported on Thursday of a neurodegenerative disorder in patients in Rio de Janeiro state were not related to beef consumption, tamping down fears of possible BSE causing human illness. Federal biomedical institute Fiocruz, which is investigating the possibility of bovine spongiform
UFCW Local 401 board member and Cargill employee Joseph Kog (l) and Local 401 president Thomas Hesse with their strike notice on Nov. 10, 2021. (GoUnion.ca)
Beef cattle, Livestock

Cargill beef plant workers serve strike notice

Without a deal, High River workers will walk Dec. 6

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Unionized workers at Cargill’s cattle slaughter and processing plant at High River, Alta. will start strike action next month unless a deal can be reached with the company, their union said Wednesday. A strike would begin at High River no sooner than Dec. 6 at 12:01 a.m. if a new collective bargaining agreement isn’t reached
(Photo courtesy Canada Beef Inc.)
Beef cattle, Livestock, Markets

Klassen: Feeder market on soft slope

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Compared to last week, western Canadian yearling prices were steady to $2 lower on average while calves traded steady to as much as $4 lower in certain regions; calves under 550 pounds were quoted $3-$6 below week-ago levels. Barley and wheat prices continue to percolate higher, causing a defensive sentiment amongst buyers. Southern Alberta and

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