Cargill Meat Plant

• Cargill Dunlop workers ratify collective agreement

  Unionized members at the facility in Guelph ratified a collective agreement on the weekend and workers will return to work on Monday. The agreement ends the 41-day strike.

  Economy

  Jul 8, 2024
  
• Cargill workers set to vote on tentative agreement Saturday

  Although a tentative deal has been reached between Cargill and the union representing the employees at the Guelph facility, workers will stay on the picket lines this weekend.

  Canada

  Jul 4, 2024
  
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• Nearly 1,000 Cargill workers in Guelph, Ont. on strike

  As a vote was held on Sunday, members of the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 175 rejected a negotiated settlement. Workers have been on the picket lines since Monday.

  Economy

  May 28, 2024
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• Coronavirus: Animal activists protest working conditions at Cargill meat-packing plant

  Activists gathered outside the Cargill meat-packing plant in High River, Alta., on Saturday, protesting working conditions they call unsafe and exploitative because of the COVID-19 outbreak at the facility.

  Health

  May 30, 2020
• Canada’s meat industry expected to increase safety measures amid COVID-19

  Chris White, president of the Canadian Meat Council, says $77.5 million earmarked by Ottawa for the food-processing industry will be used for future changes to plants, not to pay for measures already put in place.

  Health

  May 23, 2020
• 2nd death at Cargill prompts calls from Alberta NDP, union to shut down meat plant

  Alberta's Opposition NDP, along with union leaders, is calling on the province to shut down a Cargill meat-packing plant so it can be determined whether the company is meeting legal obligations to involve workers in safety concerns.

  Health

  May 11, 2020
• Canada’s food industry leaders say $252M aid falls short of need amid COVID-19

  "Our industry is already one of razor-thin margins," the Canadian Federation of Agriculture said.

  Canada

  May 5, 2020
• Coronavirus may cause temporary meat shortages. But higher prices will last longer

  Lockdown measures and stay-at-home orders have Canadians buying up food items, like meat, at rates that experts say were impossible to predict.

  Canada

  Apr 30, 2020
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• Diverse communities in Calgary facing discrimination over Cargill’s COVID-19 cases

  With concerns growing about COVID-19 outbreaks at Alberta meat plants, so too is a troubling sentiment of racism.

  Health

  Apr 29, 2020
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• ‘Death is so real’: Immigrant group says meat workers afraid after COVID-19 plant closure

  An organization that works with immigrants says the temporary closure of a large slaughterhouse in southern Alberta has left many among its largely Filipino workforce fearful for the future.

  Apr 25, 2020