Workers at the Crown Royal distillery in Gimli, Man., are expected to hit the picket lines today after stalled negotiations with Diageo Canada, the company that runs the plant.
On Friday night, UFCW Local 832 announced its members voted down the company's more recent offer in near-unanimous fashion, with 98 per cent rejecting the deal.
The announcement comes a month after 53 workers voted 100 per cent in favour of striking in the event a fair deal could not be reach with Diageo.
Putting the possibility of a strike on the table helped the bargaining process move along over the last month, but the employer and workers were still unable to reach an agreement, the union said.
"Our members go to work every day with the mindset that they are making world's greatest whisky," UFCW Local 832 president Jeff Traeger said in a statement.
"The membership believes that if the company put the same effort into this round of bargaining we wouldn't be on strike."
Workers are asking for health and welfare benefits, wage increases and more vacation time.
The strike is scheduled to get underway Saturday.
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