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Locked-out XL workers vote down company's offer
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<blockquote data-quote="Alberta farmer" data-source="post: 701831" data-attributes="member: 8978"><p>Fred: I don't think XL is trying to bust the union as their other two plants are unionized and I don't think those plants have a problem. I think we have to wait and find out just what the offer was?</p><p>XL closed the plant down for the summer saying there were insufficient numbers of cows available. They continued to buy cows for XL Calgary and XL Lakeside as well as their two cow plants in the USA. Cargill High River only kills cows one day a week and there are a few smaller players buying cows in Alberta, but XL is the main buyer. The fact was XL wanted to limit kill numbers so they could push the cow price down. They were also trying to ship a lot of cows to their plants in the US as kill costs are quite a bit less there.</p><p>I suspect they might never open XL Moosejaw again even though it is their most modern plant(Alberta has tax advantages)? With a greatly reduced cow herd in Alberta this year the writing is probably on the wall? Both Cargill and XL have been running at about two thirds capacity all year...that can't go on forever...something has to give.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Alberta farmer, post: 701831, member: 8978"] Fred: I don't think XL is trying to bust the union as their other two plants are unionized and I don't think those plants have a problem. I think we have to wait and find out just what the offer was? XL closed the plant down for the summer saying there were insufficient numbers of cows available. They continued to buy cows for XL Calgary and XL Lakeside as well as their two cow plants in the USA. Cargill High River only kills cows one day a week and there are a few smaller players buying cows in Alberta, but XL is the main buyer. The fact was XL wanted to limit kill numbers so they could push the cow price down. They were also trying to ship a lot of cows to their plants in the US as kill costs are quite a bit less there. I suspect they might never open XL Moosejaw again even though it is their most modern plant(Alberta has tax advantages)? With a greatly reduced cow herd in Alberta this year the writing is probably on the wall? Both Cargill and XL have been running at about two thirds capacity all year...that can't go on forever...something has to give. [/QUOTE]
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