Heffley Creek Tolko workers on strike
KAMLOOPS — More than 200 workers at the Heffley Creek Tolko Mill are on strike today (Dec. 3) while the union and employer are at odds at the bargaining table.
Marty Gibbons is the president for the United Steelworkers Local 1-417. He says several Tolko locations across the province are out today due to the labour action.
“Tolko Heffley Creek is probably the biggest with about 220 workers on strike today… and a couple other Tolko operations in the Okanagan,” Gibbons says. “In the Southern Interior — which is basically Kamloops, Kelowna, and Cranbrook areas — there are approximately 3,000 workers affected.”