Cargill strike vote to take place Saturday

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Published: July 4, 2024

Cargill's Guelph plant has been closed for almost five week.

Striking workers at Cargill’s Dunlop beef processing plant in Guelph have a recommended memorandum of settlement in place and they will vote on the possible deal on Saturday.

Beef Farmers of Ontario said on X that it is “encouraged by positive contract discussions at the Cargill, Guelph plant”.

Almost 1,000 members of United Food and Commercial Workers Local 175 went on strike on May 27.

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