Colorado union workers at JBS meat processing plant in Greeley vote to strike

These Haitian meatpacking workers face deportation. They voted to strike anyway.

This story was produced in partnership with the Food & Environment Reporting Network. This week, hundreds of thousands of Haitian migrants faced an uncertain future as the Trump administration fought in federal court to revoke their legal status and deport them. But despite these threats, the largely immigrant union workers at a JBS beef plant in Greeley, Colorado, many of them recent arrivals from Haiti, still voted on Wednesday by an overwhelm…

JBS workers authorize a strike at one of the largest meat facilities in the country

Workers at the Greeley plant are fighting for better wages and pace of work.

Workers vote to authorize strike at Colorado’s JBS meatpacking plant

The Greeley JBS meat packing plant in Greeley is seen in 2020. (Photo by Matthew Stockman/Getty Images)Members of the union representing 3,800 workers at the JBS meatpacking facility in Greeley have authorized a strike in response to what the union calls “ongoing illegal conduct” during an eight-month contract negotiation process. More than 99% of union members voted to authorize a so-called unfair labor practices strike, the United Food and Com…

Union workers at Greeley JBS meatpacking facility vote to authorize strike

The union that represents about 3,800 workers at the JBS plant has been negotiating a new contract for more than eight months amid unsafe, illegal labor practices.

JBS union workers vote to strike at meat packing facility in Greeley

Union workers at JBS, a meatpacking facility in Greeley, voted to authorize a strike after stating ongoing illegal conduct during bargaining and inside the facility.

JBS workers in Greeley vote overwhelmingly to authorize strike

Workers at the JBS meatpacking plant in Greeley voted overwhelmingly on Wednesday to authorize an unfair labor practice strike against the company.