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By Alice McFarlane

Agriculture Roundup

Agriculture Roundup for Wednesday October 12, 2022

Oct 12, 2022 | 2:47 PM

MELFORT, Sask. – Saskatchewan feeder cattle prices were down in all weight categories last week.

The largest decrease for steers was $6.59 per hundredweight (cwt) for the 400–500-pound category, which ended the week averaging $296.21 per cwt. The smallest decreases were in the higher weight steers.

Average weekly prices for heifers were down in all weight categories. Prices ranged from $254.89 per cwt for the 300–400-pound weight category to $215.94 per cwt for the 800-pound plus weight category.

Like feeder steers, it was the 400–500-pound feeder heifer weight category that had the largest price decrease.

Canfax reported a total of 19,302 head of cattle sold in Saskatchewan, up from 15,525 head the previous week.

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A large union is criticizing some of the recommendations made by the National Supply Chain Task Force.

In an open letter to Transport Minister Omar Alghabra, Unifor National President Lana Payne expressed concern about discussion of an alternative model of labour relations.

She said the recommendations would diminish workers’ fundamental right to strike and to publicly recommit to basic workplace rights afforded to Canadian workers.

“It is wholly unacceptable for the Task Force to have considered ‘labour disputes’ as events requiring risk-mitigation strategies, on par with climate-related events,” Payne said in a news release. “Limiting worker power by curtailing the rights of workers to strike would contribute to the erosion of job quality, destabilizing the transportation supply chain further — the opposite of what the task force was set up to accomplish.”

Payne said decades of industry deregulation combined with other anti-labour activities, such as contract flipping and contracting out have contributed to the recruitment and retention issues plaguing critical parts of the sector, exacerbating supply chain issues.

Unifor has 50,000 members working in the Canadian transportation industry.

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