Quebec Pork Plant Strike Has U.S. Packers Making Canadian Bacon
- Hogs that Quebec plant can’t take are being shipped south
- Imports help temper surging prices in tight U.S. market
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A workers’ strike at a pork plant in Quebec is allowing U.S meat packers, who are struggling to find enough domestic pigs, to make some Canadian bacon instead.
While workers on strike since April were marching through Quebec City demanding higher wages, hogs that would typically be slaughtered at Olymel’s plant in Vallee-Jonction were getting trucked over the border into the U.S.