Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 27, 2000, Winnipeg, Manitoba I May 2000 firm claims employee turnover starting to stabilize Maple Leaf celebrates As growing pains continue by Helen fall info Brandon Maple Leaf pork celebrated the official opening of its giant pork Plant Here yesterday with balloons and live but the growing pains Are not Over we believe this is the largest investment in Cana Dian history in hog Maple Leaf chief executive Michael Mccain told about 300 Community leaders invited to tour the Plant for the first nine months after killing its first hog in the Plant has reached its target line but Only operates four Days a week and is struggling to keep there walking out the door in chief Union shop Steward Gordon Mckenzie Mccain would not reveal turnover statistics yes but Mckenzie said the Plant is hiring about 25 people a week to replace those who quit or Are its its hard its not what a lot of people he lot of people were presuming the wage was going to go workers at Maple Leaf Start at an less than at competitor Schneider in where a Union representative said turnover is Low and morale is meatpacking plants typically experience More than 100 per cent turnover in their first year of oper but Maple Leaf had hoped to beat the Odds at the new state theart Brandon its Start ing to said Pat president of the Toronto based company pork most workers continue to be hired from the bran Don he Mccain said he does not know when hog prices now at the top of their Cycle will drop enough to justify buying More hogs and returning to a five Day work earlier this the company reported Startup losses of million on sales of million at the Brandon the province promised Maple Leaf million to help train workers when the company first agreed to locate in but will not pay out the full amount if staff continue to work Shorter the army of White suited workers protected from accidental knife wounds by Chain mail aprons demonstrated their skills visitors were not taken to the 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Janzen the gruesome pictures have been splashed on televisions and newspaper pages All too frequently in recent armed gunmen storm into office buildings or restaurants killing and wounding people and while violent situations like this rarely take place in the cites police and ambulance service want to make sure there ready if they so yesterday dozens of Para hostage negotiators and the Emer gency response unit Practised for the at an office building located alongside Assiniboine volunteers gathered Early yesterday morning and assumed the role of victims and gunmen to test the skills of police and emergency while the situation want patrol Gordon Hudson of the Winnipeg police ser vice said the skills and tools officers learn at such a training exercise Are Hudson said individual police units regularly test their skills during training but once or twice a year the entire emergency response system gets together and works through a crisis Stan staff inspector of emergency said the training 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