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	Tentative deal reached in Lakeside Packers strike (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Not all of Lakeside's 2,100 employees are behind the union.
		Lakeside is hopeful the employees will ratify the deal, "because it provides competitive wages and benefits, while helping the economic viability of the plant," manager Chris Borgren said in a news release.
		Lakeside, owned by U.S.-based Tyson Foods, is the largest single employer in Brooks, a town of 13,000, with an annual payroll of $90 million for 2,400 workers.
	www.canada.com /national/story.html?id=1303f69b-6ca7-4d63-b091-65005be0bf64 (815 words)

	Lakeside Workers Ratify Contract; Union Vote Ends Labour Dispute : ArriveNet Press Releases : Industry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Lakeside's chaplains will be available to talk to Team Members who have concerns about the resumption of operations that include both workers who were on strike and those who chose to cross the picket line.
		Lakeside will continue to pay the full premium cost for health care at the 2004 rate; however, Lakeside Team Members will begin to share in the cost if the total exceeds what the company paid in 2004.
		Lakeside workers who are not members of the union at the time of ratification are not required to join.
	press.arrivenet.com /industry/article.php/715274.html (864 words)

	AFL News
		Lakeside Packers has been a benchmark in Alberta labour relations for 20 years.
		The organization of the 2,100 workers at Lakeside is the most significant successful union drive in Alberta in the past 20 years.
		Lakeside Packers is owned by Tyson Foods - the world's largest processor and marketer of chicken and red meat products with annual sales in excess of $23 billion U.S. There are unionized Tyson plants in the United States.
	www.afl.org /labour-news/afl-news.cfm?newsid=270 (1248 words)

	CTV.ca \| Tentative deal reached in Lakeside Packers strike
		A tentative deal has been reached in the bitter labour dispute at Lakeside Packers slaughterhouse near Brooks, Alberta, where workers have been on strike for three weeks.
		"The incidents which they are charged with are related to the current Lakeside Packers labour dispute, but did not occur on or near company property," the RCMP said in a statement.
		Lakeside Packers processes nearly 40 per cent of Canada's beef.
	www.ctv.ca /servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20051102/lakesidepackers_tentativedeal_051102?s_name=&no_ads= (466 words)

	Lakeside Manufacturing -- Recommendations and Resources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Lakeside School is a private school (grades 5 through 12) located in the Haller Lake neighborhood at the north city limits of Seattle, Washington, USA.
		Recently, Lakeside has been recognized in national publications for its students' exceptional SAT scores and high admission rates to top universities.
		Lakeside Packers is a beef producer based in Brooks, Alberta.
	www.becomingapediatrician.com /health/84/lakeside-manufacturing.html (1036 words)

	Globeinvestor.com: Union calls for strike at Lakeside beef plant
		Lakeside Packers, based in Brooks, Alberta, responded by saying it will seek Alberta Labor Board permission to allow workers at the plant to vote on the company's latest contract offer.
		Lakeside's proposal includes a $1 increase in the starting hourly wage to $13 and increases of $1.60 an hour in base wages during the contract period.
		Lakeside said that would have put the beef industry at risk, since Canada's largest beef packing plants could have potentially been idled by labor disputes at the same time.
	www.globeinvestor.com /servlet/ArticleNews/story/ROC/20051005/2005-10-05T231240Z_01_KWA583485_RTRIDST_0_BUSINESS-FOOD-TYSON-UNION-COL (618 words)

	The Militant - September 28, 2004 -- Canada: meat packers win union election
		TORONTO, Ontario—A majority of the 2,200 workers at Lakeside Packers in Brooks, Alberta, voted in favor of representation by the United Food and Commercial Workers Union (UFCW).
		Lakeside Packers, the biggest slaughterhouse in Canada, is now owned by U.S-based Tyson Foods, the world’s largest processor of chicken and red meat products.
		The UFCW had organized Lakeside years ago, but in a hard-fought strike in 1984 the union lost the battle and was decertified.
	www.themilitant.com /2004/6835/683551.html (637 words)

	IATP \| Agribusiness Center
		Three men were treated for minor injuries overnight when an altercation broke out between striking Lakeside Packers employees and a group of managers and workers trying to cross the picket line.
		Workers were prepared to first walk off the job in July, but the day before they were set to hit the picket line, the province stepped in and imposed a disputes inquiry board to talk to both sides, halting any job action for 60 days.
		Lakeside wants the provincial labour board to force the union to put their offer to a vote.
	www.agribusinesscenter.org /headlines.cfm?id=905 (657 words)

	Lakeside to Seek Contract Proposal Vote; Move a Response to Union Strike Notice : ArriveNet Press Releases : Industry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Lakeside has also proposed shortening the wage progression or amount of time it takes a new worker to reach top wage rates.
		Lakeside also proposed limitations on a mediator-proposed boot allowance and the medical benefits provided by the company.
		Lakeside Packers, part of Lakeside Farm Industries, began operations in 1974 as a beef slaughter operation.
	press.arrivenet.com /industry/article.php/702109.html (668 words)

	Alberta Workers Angry at Government and Union : IMC Maritimes
		Some 2,000 workers at the Lakeside Packers beef-processing plant in the small Alberta town of Brooks were ready to walk off the job this morning with a 70-percent strike mandate.
		At Lakeside Packers in Brooks the Union has forcefully argued that binding arbitration would be in everyone's interest.
		Expressions of solidarity with the rebellious workers at Lakeside Packers could be a tool in breaking apart the barriers that the unions place in the path of the class struggle.
	maritimes.indymedia.org /news/2005/07/10595.php (1344 words)

	Ottawa Business Journal - News
		Beef will soon be heading south of the border now that one of Canada's largest meat packers has received export permits from the U.S. Gary Mickelson, spokesman for Lakeside Packers in Brooks, Alta., said the first beef will ship on Wednesday.
		Lakeside slaughters one of every three beef cattle processed in Canada each year.
		Lakeside will initially ship two truckloads of refrigerated cuts of boneless beef, each containing about 18,000 kilograms of meat, Mickelson said.
	www.ottawabusinessjournal.com /278615442741284.php (295 words)

	Government of Canada signs $9-million Work Sharing agreement with Lakeside Packers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		That is why we have entered into a Work Sharing agreement with Lakeside Packers to avoid layoffs and retain work skills while helping the community.
		Lakeside Packers, a division of Lakeside Farm Industries, operates Alberta's largest beef packing plant.
		"The Lakeside Packers team is pleased to be able to team up with HRDC in implementing the Work Sharing program," said Brent Altwasser, Lakeside Packers Plant Manager.
	www.hrsdc.gc.ca /en/cs/comm/news/2003/030613.shtml (1204 words)

	UFCW \| Lakeside Says Inspectors Backing Union
		BROOKS--The owners of Lakeside Packers on Wednesday threatened to sue federal meat inspectors, veterinarians and the union, accusing them of working in cahoots to keep the packing plant from processing meat.
		Acker told Lakeside lawyer Raylene Palichuk that 10 to 12 inspectors must be present at the plant for it to operate.
		The testimony came during a Lakeside application to have the union held in contempt of court for disobeying a prior judge's order that pickets not block employees wanting to enter the plant.
	www.ufcw.org /tyson/news_and_views/inspectors.cfm (740 words)

	UFCW \| Press Room Index
		BROOKS, AB (UFCW Canada) - Lakeside Packers employees have voted to ratify a first collective agreement ending their strike against the Brooks, Alberta slaughterhouse and processing facility that began on October 12.
		Lakeside Packers is owned by Arkansas-based Tyson Foods.
		Lakeside Packers employs about 2,300 workers and processes about 4,000 head of cattle a day.
	www.ufcw.org /press_room/index.cfm?pressReleaseID=195 (184 words)

	babble: Lakeside/Tyson's Sick Saga At Brooks, AB Continues
		Lakeside Packers has had to compete with Cargill's plant in Fort Macleod, with Cargill admitting in print that they can afford to lose a million dollars a year for seven years in order to undercut the competition into bankruoptcy.
		Lakeside Packers has the right to do business, and I daresay their profit margin lately is LESS than 3%, but they themselves have shown themselves, in past behaviour, unlikely to honour a covenant with the public or with their own staff.
		As everyone knows, Lakeside rejected the DIB C.A. but proposed a modified contract which was instantly rejected by the union and off they went on strike with mere days remaining on a stale and questionable strike mandate.
	www.rabble.ca /babble/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=12&t=001175&p= (9822 words)

	Meat packers still refuse to hand over financial info \| myTELUS
		CALGARY (CBC) - Cargill and Lakeside Packers failed to meet the Monday deadline to turn their financial records over to the agriculture committee examining whether the meat packing industry profited from the mad cow crisis.
		Cargill and Lakeside, both American owned, say they don't believe the federal committee can keep their records confidential, and that they have competitive concerns.
		Representatives from Cargill Foods, Lakeside Packers and XL Foods, which handle about 75 per cent of the country's beef, have already appeared before the federal standing commitee on agriculture.
	www.mytelus.com /news/article.do?pageID=news_home&articleID=1607990 (359 words)

	Lakeside Increase Production, Reduce Backlog of Cattle (CA) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Brooks, Alberta - Lakeside Packers will soon take another step in the effort to reduce the oversupply of Canadian cattle.
		The chief executive of Tyson Foods, which owns Lakeside, today announced that the Alberta plant plans to begin increasing its beef slaughter capacity in mid-June.
		The Lakeside plant has been operating at maximum capacity for much of the past year and a half because of record-large Canadian cattle supplies.
	www.foodconsumer.org /777/8/printer_Lakeside_Increase_Production_Reduce_Backlog_of_Cattle.shtml (522 words)

	The Marxist-Leninist Daily
		Workers called on the RCMP to lay attempted murder charges in the incident, in light of the fact that two cars of Lakeside managers had been pursuing the president of the local when he was forced off the road and injured in the accident.
		The strikers at Lakeside who are defending their picket line are in the proud tradition of the workers at Gainers and the thousands of workers, many of them unemployed construction workers who fought for many months to uphold the dignity of labour and defend their rights.
		The vast majority of the people who work at Lakeside have been displaced from their homelands or have come to Brooks because their own communities in Canada have been devastated, as is the case with the workers from Newfoundland.
	www.cpcml.ca /Tmld2005/D35176.htm (4040 words)

	UFCW Local 1977 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Tyson’s Lakeside handles about 40% of Canada’s cattle slaughter and the plant is a major supplier to Canadian grocery retailers, restaurants and fast food chains.
		The union was certified as the bargaining agent for the Lakeside workers in August, 2004 after a vote of the employees conducted by the Alberta Labour Relations Board registered a solid majority wanting representation by Local 401.
		Garnet Altwasser, 65, is Lakeside’s president and CEO and and Patrick Gummeson, 52, is the manager of farm operations.
	www.ufcwlocal1977.on.ca /index.asp?pid=576 (997 words)

	Western Wheel - your Foothills Community Newspaper
		Meat packers are facing possible charges as a result of the agriculture committee’s review of how millions of dollars in government aid was allocated during the past year.
		According to the study the average packer gross margin for the period of Sept. 22 to Feb. 16 is $431 per carcass.
		It was alleged that the packers had been purchasing cattle at rock-bottom prices, but selling the finished product to the grocery chain at pre-mad cow prices maintaining the price of beef at the grocery store status quo despite low cattle prices.
	www.westernwheel.com /040512 (984 words)

	The Liberal Caucus: Alberta's Official Opposition
		Edmonton – Alberta Liberal Labour critic Dan Backs is calling on Human Resource and Employment Minister Mike Cardinal to release a FOIP request made by the Liberal Opposition seeking the details of Lakeside Packers’ Occupational Health and Safety Safety Inspections and Employment Standards records for the past four years.
		While Backs is pleased to see a tentative deal reached between Lakeside and the union, he still has concerns over Lakeside’s safety record and the working conditions faced by its workers.
		Backs wants to work with Minister Cardinal, Lakeside, and the union to ensure that workers are treated with dignity and respect at their jobs.
	www.liberalopposition.com /index.php/news/more/lakeside_safety_inspection_records_could_reveal_true_story_behind_strike (312 words)

	MyCattle Top Stories
		Garnet Altwasser, CEO of Lakeside Packers, said Wednesday the expansion should be completed in fall 2005 and will create about 300 new jobs.
		The industry is demanding more slaughter capacity for Canadian cattle, partly to address a backlog in the system due to the closure of the U.S. border to live Canadian cattle because of mad cow disease.
		When it's completed, the Lakeside expansion will boost the plant's capacity by 1,000 head of cattle per day, bringing the total to about 4,000 animals per day.
	www.mycattle.com /news/dsp_topstories_article.cfm?storyid=14864 (319 words)

	Farm Credit Canada - October 14, 2005
		Lakeside, owned by Arkansas-based Tyson Foods, is the number two packing plant company in Canada and employs more than 2,400 people.
		However, Lakeside has also been slaughtering cull cows and bulls and they can’t be diverted to the U.S. Russell says when the U.S. border opened to younger animals, the rules changed to allow Canadian packing plants to kill animals over 30 months of age as well as younger animals.
		Lakeside started slaughtering cows and bulls at that point, providing competition in the marketplace and improving the price received by producers.
	www.fcc-sca.ca /newsletters/en/express/articles/20051014_e.asp (3841 words)

	UFCW 1518: Workers Vote YES For Union At Lakeside Packers In Brooks, Alberta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		A majority of workers at Lakeside Packers in Brooks, Alberta has voted to appoint UFCW Canada Local 401 as their union and representative for collective bargaining.
		Brooke Sundin, President of UFCW Local 1518 in B.C., said that the persistence of the UFCW in Alberta, and the willingness of the employees of Lakeside Packers to stand up to threats and intimidation tactics by management were particularly noteworthy.
		Sundin added that there was a lesson in the Lakeside Packers experience for workers and unions in every industry.
	www.ufcw1518.com /view.php?id=990 (380 words)

	CBC News: Production suspended at slaughterhouse (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Production at the Lakeside Packers slaughterhouse in Alberta was suspended temporarily Friday, giving striking workers and others willing to cross the picket line time to cool down after an altercation the night before.
		On Friday, limitations placed on striking Lakeside Packers workers were filed with the Court of Queen's Bench, meaning police can lay charges if any restrictions are breached.
		On Thursday, the provincial labour board denied a request to have the UFCW decertified as the union representing workers at the plant.
	www.cbc.ca /story/canada/national/2005/10/14/alberta-strike051014.html?ref=rss (1161 words)

	Forbes.com: Canada meatpackers reject profiteering allegations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Cargill, Lakeside Packers and XL Beef told Parliament's agriculture committee the public has been misinformed on why retail prices had fallen far less than prices paid to ranchers.
		The thrust of the packers' argument centered on the closure of three dozen foreign markets immediately after the May 20 discovery of Canada's first home-grown case of brain-wasting bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or mad cow disease.
		Lakeside Packers' Garnett Altwasser told legislators the value of a 600-pound slaughter steer had recovered to 95 Canadian cents (72 U.S. cents) a pound from a low of 45 Canadian cents last year.
	www.forbes.com /business/newswire/2004/03/10/rtr1294151.html (713 words)

	Alberta Beef Producers - News
		The Bureau found no evidence of any communication among packers to coordinate reductions in cattle prices, which would be contrary to the conspiracy provision of the Act.
		In addition, the Bureau found no evidence of a practice of anti-competitive acts undertaken by beef packers, or wholesale or retail grocers, contrary to the abuse of dominance provision of the Act.
		Tyson Foods which owns Lakeside Packers also continues to support efforts to reopen the U.S. border to Canadian cattle.
	www.albertabeef.org /news.asp?newsindex=272 (1394 words)

	Take Action: Tyson Foods Force Workers on Strike
		About 2,300 UFCW Canada Local 401 workers at the Lakeside Packers plant had no other choice but to strike on October 12, 2005, after the company rejected a provincial mediator’s contract agreement.
		The company has refused to agree to a fair contract, leaving workers with the bleak choice of having to strike or return to work at a reprehensible workhouse that has chewed through 100,000 workers over the last 10 years.
		Three strikers were beaten and left writhing in a ditch, and some of your company officials have been charged with dangerous driving when they forced the union president off the road in a car crash.
	ufcwaction.org /campaign/tyson?rk=kpqLK2n1LcWEE (646 words)

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