Workers at Schneider’s Marion Street slaughter plant in Winnipeg will hold a strike vote within a week after rejecting the company’s latest contract offer.
The 125 employees, members of United Food and Commercial Workers, Local 832, voted 68 percent against the offer, which had been recommended for acceptance by the committee negotiating on their behalf. The vote was held Feb. 13.
“Our members have made it clear that the offer the company put on the table does not address all their concerns,” said Bernard Christophe, chief executive officer of UFCW, Local 832.
Their previous contract expired last June. The union hadn’t decided as of Feb. 14 when a strike deadline will be imposed.
Workers at the facility slaughter hogs, the majority of which go to Schneider’s Warman Road plant in Winnipeg for further processing.
The vote doesn’t affect workers at the Warman Road plant, who are covered by a different union contract.
