United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 401reports that its workers have accepted Cargill’s latest offer thereby averting a strike over the weekend at the Alberta beef processing plant.

Union officials say the contract, “presented unprecedented gains in this time of economic and political uncertainty.”

The plant is located in High River and 71 per cent voted in favour of accepting the company’s contract.

The union says in Brooks, 2,500 employees who process beef at the JBS Plant are watching the Cargill precedent carefully. In the New Year, they head into bargaining for their new contract.

The two Alberta plants represent approximately 70 per cent of all federally inspected processed beef in Canada.