Canada's Olymel Cancels Hog Purchases Amid Plant Strike
March 26, 2015 | 1 min to read
WINNIPEG, Manitoba – One of Canada's biggest pork processors, Olymel LP, has canceled purchases of 23,000 hogs from Ontario due to a strike at its second-largest slaughterhouse, it said on Tuesday.
About 1,000 workers at Olymel's Vallée-Jonction, Quebec plant, belonging to the Confederation Des Syndicats Nationaux (CSN) union went on strike on March 18 and rejected Olymel's latest offer a day later. Pay is the main outstanding issue, according to reports.
Olymel spokesman Richard Vigneault said canceling the purchase of Ontario hogs will make it difficult to quickly resume production at the plant if a settlement is reached.
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