Concerns about grain terminals strike stretch far and wide, including to central Alberta
The impacts of a strike at Vancouver’s grain terminals are far-reaching, says a pair of officials from the Red Deer area.
The strike began Sept. 24 with the members of the Grain Workers Union Local 333 walking off the job in a fight for, among other things, the ability to take paid lieu days.
It’s estimated by the Grain Growers of Canada that the work stoppage could cost nearly $35 million every day in lost exports.
Rod Bradshaw, chair of Red Deer’s Agri-Trade advisory committee and owner of Beck Farms near Innisfail, spoke to rdnewsNOW about the strike while hard at work on the farm.