Immigrant Workers Launch Largest US Meatpacking Strike in 40 Years

Colorado JBS meatpacking strike enters second week

Greeley, CO - JBS Greeley workers are starting the first weekend of their strike strong, with over 1000 picketing outside the meatpacki...

Immigrant workers launch largest US meatpacking strike in 40 years

3,800 workers and Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 7 members at the massive 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. As Caitlyn Clark and Lisa Xu report in Labor Not…

Brazilian JBS workers speak out on wages, degrading conditions and the Greeley strike in US

JBS workers in Brazil, the US and other countries are all subordinated to a single regime of exploitation for the benefit of the same international financial oligarchy, and united by the same objective class interests.

Labor Solidarity is the One Word 57 Languages Understand in Meatpackers' Strike

“The 3,800 workers at the JBS beef processing plant in Greeley, Colorado, walked off the job on Monday, March 16, launching a two-week unfair labor practice strike. Workers from around the world have united in the largest U.S. meatpacking strike in 40 years.” “The demands are the usual. Having to pay for their equipment and dangerous speed-ups. Meatpacking jobs are among the most dangerous in the country. Workers on the picket line showed cuts, …