Tentative deal reached in Lakeside Packers strike

04/11/2005
According to a statement released by UFCW Canada – the union representing workers at Lakeside - a tentative collective agreement has been reached between UFCW Canada Local 401 and Lakeside Packers, subject to ratification by the membership.

Announcement of the tentative deal came on the 22nd day of a strike at the slaughterhouse and processing facility in Brooks, Alberta.

Lakeside Packers normally handles about 40% of all cattle processed in Canada but production ceased when the strike began on October 12. It is owned by US-based Tyson Foods.

UFCW Canada is one of Canada’s largest private sector unions with over 230,000 members working in the food retailing and
processing, warehousing, security, hospitality, office, and health care sectors.