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  1. #Colorado #Meatpackers End #Strike, Will Return to Work
    world-outlook.com/2026/04/06/c

    from #WorldOutlook
    April 6, 2026

    “The company walked away,” Cordova told the crowd of more than 800 #workers from the day shift picket lines. “They believed that you would not walk out on strike.”

    But of the 3,800 workers in the plant represented by the #union, 94% did walk on March 16, marking the first major packinghouse strike in 40 years.[1]

    The workers’ action had an impact, according to the union. About 60% of the cattle earmarked for JBS went to competitors as the company tried to operate with the remaining hourly workforce and supervisors.

    “The problem is the way we are being treated,” Hector Vargas told World-Outlook before the April 3 union meeting at the parking lot. “To keep up with work means taking a beating. And you cannot go to the bathroom. They make you wait a long time — if they let you go.”

    #news #politics #USpol #labor #LaborMovement
    #immigrants #WorkersRights #UFCW

  2. 3,800 workers and Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 7 union members at JBS beef processing plant in #Greeley, Colorado, walked off the job on an unfair labor practice strike on March 16. This is the first strike ever at the Greeley plant—one of the largest in the country—and it’s the biggest meatpacking strike in the US since the 1985-86 strike at the Hormel plant in Austin, Minnesota.

    therealnews.com/immigrant-work

    #Labourmovement #migrantworkers #meatpackers #Organize #Strikes

  3. 3,800 workers and Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 7 union members at JBS beef processing plant in #Greeley, Colorado, walked off the job on an unfair labor practice strike on March 16. This is the first strike ever at the Greeley plant—one of the largest in the country—and it’s the biggest meatpacking strike in the US since the 1985-86 strike at the Hormel plant in Austin, Minnesota.

    therealnews.com/immigrant-work

    #Labourmovement #migrantworkers #meatpackers #Organize #Strikes

  4. 3,800 workers and Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 7 union members at JBS beef processing plant in #Greeley, Colorado, walked off the job on an unfair labor practice strike on March 16. This is the first strike ever at the Greeley plant—one of the largest in the country—and it’s the biggest meatpacking strike in the US since the 1985-86 strike at the Hormel plant in Austin, Minnesota.

    therealnews.com/immigrant-work

    #Labourmovement #migrantworkers #meatpackers #Organize #Strikes

  5. 3,800 workers and Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 7 union members at JBS beef processing plant in #Greeley, Colorado, walked off the job on an unfair labor practice strike on March 16. This is the first strike ever at the Greeley plant—one of the largest in the country—and it’s the biggest meatpacking strike in the US since the 1985-86 strike at the Hormel plant in Austin, Minnesota.

    therealnews.com/immigrant-work

    #Labourmovement #migrantworkers #meatpackers #Organize #Strikes

  6. 3,800 workers and Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 7 union members at JBS beef processing plant in #Greeley, Colorado, walked off the job on an unfair labor practice strike on March 16. This is the first strike ever at the Greeley plant—one of the largest in the country—and it’s the biggest meatpacking strike in the US since the 1985-86 strike at the Hormel plant in Austin, Minnesota.

    therealnews.com/immigrant-work

    #Labourmovement #migrantworkers #meatpackers #Organize #Strikes

  7. Alabama Is Denying Prisoners Parole to Lease Their Labor to #Meatpackers, #McDonalds (No parole if you’re still profitable.)
    inthesetimes.com/article/alaba

    Photographs: Guards supervise a group of convict-lease prisoners in Birmingham, Ala. & Convict-lease prisoners at the Banner Mine in Alabama.
    Source: BIRMINGHAM PUBLIC LIBRARY ARCHIVES
    #FightLikeHell book cover

    #alabama #capitalism #exploitation #prisonlabor #USSW #RWDSU #union
    #inthesetimes #kimKelly