Defying Expectations: The Case of UFCW Local 401

• Main Author: Jason Foster (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Athabasca University Press 2018
• Series: Working Canadians: Books from the CCLH
• Subjects: unions; labour force; strikes; Doug O'Halloran; trade unions; immigrant labourers; XL Fine Foods
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

In October 2005, Jason Foster, then a staff member of the Alberta Federation of Labour, was holding a picket line outside Lakeside Packers in Brooks, Alberta with the members of local 401. It was a first contract strike. And although the employees of the meat-packing plant-many of whom were immigran...