About 2,000 workers at the Cargill plant at High River, Alta., voted 71 per cent in favour of a contract their union leaders negotiated.
In a statement, the United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 401 said the contract is “the best of its kind and presented unprecedented gains in this time of economic and political uncertainty.”
It also says it was reached “during the biggest health crisis the world has ever seen.”
Jarrod Gillig, the business operations and supply chain president for Cargill’s North American protein business, says the deal is “comprehensive” and “fair,” adding it reflects their employees’ “commitment to excellence.”
A company spokesman had previously said the deal offered a six-year collective agreement that includes retroactive pay, signing bonuses, a 21-per-cent wage increase over the life of the contract and improved health benefits.
