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Union seeks temporary halt for major Manitoba hog plant

Four Maple Leaf plant staff now COVID-positive

By Dave Bedard, GFM Network News August 7, 2020

The union for about 2,000 workers at Maple Leaf Foods’ main Canadian hog slaughter and packing plant is calling for the company to put the brakes on production, pending further tests for COVID-19 among employees. United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 832 said Thursday it was “made aware” late Wednesday night of three more

File photo of a truck arriving at a Smithfield Foods pork plant at Smithfield, Va. on Oct. 17, 2019. (Photo: Reuters/Tom Polansek)

Hogs, Livestock

Smithfield starting to reopen Sioux Falls hog plant, union says

Major plant was shuttered by COVID-19 outbreak

By GFM Network News, Reuters May 5, 2020

Chicago | Reuters — Smithfield Foods, the world’s biggest pork processor, resumed limited operations on Monday at a massive South Dakota slaughterhouse it closed last month because of the coronavirus pandemic, the union representing plant employees said. The closure of the plant and other slaughterhouses due to coronavirus cases among employees has led to temporary

Beef cattle, Livestock

Cargill’s High River plant reopens with two slaughter shifts

Cutting line to resume Wednesday

By Dave Bedard, GFM Network News May 5, 2020

Cargill’s southern Alberta beef packing plant, estimated to be responsible for over a third of Canada’s beef processing capacity, restarted Monday after a two-week COVID-19-related shutdown — but at a quicker pace than previously expected. The company said in a statement Monday it is resuming operations at the High River plant “with two shifts” in

Beef cattle, Livestock

COVID-19 surges at reopened JBS Colorado beef plant, union says

A sixth worker has died, UFCW local chief says

By GFM Network News, Reuters April 30, 2020

Chicago | Reuters — COVID-19 cases at a JBS meatpacking plant in Colorado have more than doubled “in a number of days” and a sixth employee died of the virus, a union official said on Thursday, underscoring the risks of U.S. meat plants reopening. The beef plant at Greeley, about 65 km north of Denver,

Dairy cattle, Livestock

Agropur to shut Monteregie fine cheese plant

By GFM Network News, Gfm Staff September 23, 2018

A Quebec cheese plant formerly known as a top maker of Camembert- and Brie-type cheeses is set to shut permanently in April after five years under Agropur’s ownership. Quebec-based Agropur, North America’s biggest dairy co-operative, announced Friday it will start winding down operations at its Saint-Damase cheese plant in January ahead of the April 2019

Hogs, Livestock

Olymel to pool Quebec hog processing partnerships

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff August 9, 2016

A pair of hog packing and processing plants in Quebec’s Mauricie region are set to join forces through their common business partner for a major expansion. Olymel, the meat packing and processing arm of Quebec’s Coop Federee, announced Tuesday it has sealed a partnership deal with livestock producer and processor Groupe Robitaille. That deal, first

(Regis Lefebure photo courtesy ARS/USDA)

Hogs, Livestock

Olymel plans major expansion for Quebec hog plant

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff June 21, 2016

The meat packing arm of Quebec’s La Coop federee has budgeted $25 million for a major expansion project at its hog slaughter and butchering plant at St-Esprit, Que. Olymel’s expansion plan, announced Tuesday, is expected to bring the plant’s floor space to over 215,000 square feet, up by about 35,000 square feet, and boost its

Cereals, Crops

Bimbo to shut Canada Bread’s North Bay plant

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff May 28, 2016

Canada Bread, the Canadian arm of Mexican baked-goods giant Grupo Bimbo, plans to close its bakery at North Bay, Ont. later this summer. The company announced Wednesday it will begin to gradually wind down operations, transfer the plant’s work to its other bakeries in Quebec and Ontario and shut down the bakery effective Aug. 5.

Unionized staff spent eight weeks off the job this fall at Richardson Milling’s Martensville, Sask. oat plant. (UFCW.ca)

Crops

Richardson’s Sask. oat milling staff ratify deal

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff November 18, 2014

Unionized workers with Richardson International’s oat processing and grain milling plant at Martensville, Sask. are headed back to work after ratifying a new labour deal. About three dozen Richardson Milling employees, represented by the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 1400, were locked out Sept. 10 after voting in late August to approve a

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Union seeks temporary halt for major Manitoba hog plant

Smithfield starting to reopen Sioux Falls hog plant, union says

Cargill’s High River plant reopens with two slaughter shifts

COVID-19 surges at reopened JBS Colorado beef plant, union says

Agropur to shut Monteregie fine cheese plant

Olymel to pool Quebec hog processing partnerships

Olymel plans major expansion for Quebec hog plant

Bimbo to shut Canada Bread’s North Bay plant

Richardson’s Sask. oat milling staff ratify deal

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