Maple Leaf Foods and its employees locked horns in November. Twenty-three-hundred employees found themselves walking a picket line in Hamilton and Burlington, Ontario, North Battleford, Saskatchewan and Edmonton. Maple Leaf was seeking a 30-per-cent reduction in wages and benefits in Burlington. But in Edmonton, employees were offered a raise of 28 cents an hour in each year of a three-year contract. Maple Leaf Food's vice-president Pat Jones said the company had hoped to reach a settlement, but never hid the fact that the 91-year-old Edmonton plant would close if there was a strike.

Date: 1997-11-17
Placeline: EDMONTON, Alberta.
Source: The Canadian Press
Length: 19 seconds

Transcript Prediction: << we accepted the mediator's report it had cost associated with it we agreed to it even though our labor rate was already high there from our perspective we agreed to it it wasn't accepted it was a clear choice for the people the dealer work and get a raise or strike and and have no job and that's the choice they made >>

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