By Cheryl Jahn / CKPG News

USW issues strike notice affecting more than a dozen northern and central B.C. mills

Oct 3, 2018 | 4:15 PM

PRINCE GEORGE — About 2,000 forestry workers in the region will be in a legal strike position at 8:00 a.m. Saturday after the United Steelworkers Local 1-2017 issued 72-hour strike notice this morning.

The mills in question are:

• Babine Forest Products
• Canfor in Houston, Fort St. John, Isle Pierre and Prince George
• Conifex in Fort St. James and Mackenzie
• Dunkley Lumber
• Lakeland Mills
• Tolko’s Lakeview, Quest Wood and Soda Creek mills
• West Fraser’s Williams Lake Planer Mill.

The union says the bargaining unit for the mills, Conifer, is still asking for concession in time of record-breaking lumber prices and profits.