December 22, 2011 - Workers at an Olymel poultry slaughtering plant at St-Damase in the Montérégie region of southwestern Quebec voted 59 per cent in favour of an eight-year labour agreement with the company.
The agreement, which was signed on Dec. 20, will expire on Aug. 31, 2019. The previous labour contract had expired on Aug. 31 this year.
The facility employs 325 persons, who are affiliated with Local 1991-P of the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW).
"The negotiations were conducted in a calm atmosphere, which enabled us to agree on all items in the new agreement," Louis Banville, Olymel's vice president of human resources, said in a release. "During our discussions with union representatives, we were able to reconcile our employees' interests with the need to establish the conditions of stability and productivity that are essential to remaining a competitive player in the poultry industry in Québec, and thereby ensure that jobs there could be maintained in the long term."
The facility, which has a weekly slaughtering capacity of 750,000 birds, supplies Olymel processing plants in the poultry industry, and also satisfies specific orders from several major customers.
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