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Extra Foods employees across Manitoba will decide on Sunday evening whether to accept their employer's offer or hit the picket line. The United Food and Commercial Workers Local 832 has called membership meetings for April 4 so employees may review whatever offer is on the table from Westfair Foods. "If a majority of the workers reject the offer, there will be a strike," reads a statement on the union's Web site. Extra Foods and Superstore employees across the province have already voted 95 per cent in favour of strike action if most don't approve of the offer. The union says whatever offer Westfair Foods has on the table at the time of the membership meetings will be discussed and voted on. A strike would affect all of the approximately 3,100 unionized workers at all Extra Foods and Superstore locations in Manitoba, as well as Westfair's Wholesale Club store in Winkler. According to the union, some of outstanding issues in negotiations include wage increases, better scheduling and guarantee of hours, benefit improvements, and job security. The new Extra Foods store in Flin Flon opened last month, creating some 50 new jobs.
