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It was beginning to look more and more yesterday like Extra Foods workers are headed for the picket line. "It's not looking very good at this point," Robert Ziegler, president of the union representing the employees, told the Winnipeg Free Press in an article published yesterday. Talks between the union and Calgary-based Westfair Foods, which owns the Extra Foods chain, were to continue in Winnipeg until midnight tonight, according to the union's Web site. At that time, the talks will close Ð whether a tentative agreement has been reached or not. Extra Foods employees across the province will meet in their respective communities Sunday to vote on whatever offer is on the table. "If we don't reach an agreement, we will go to our members and recommend we go to a strike," Ziegler told the Free Press. The union represents some 3,100 workers at all Extra Foods and Superstore locations across Manitoba, and Westfair's Wholesale Club in Winkler. In a vote last weekend, union members voted 95 per cent in favour of a strike if they believe it is necessary.
