US EditionWorkers plan to halt strike at major US meatpacking plant and resume negotiations
Workers will return without a new contract after JBS agreed to resume talks, while the union says 3,800 employees still seek higher pay and safer conditions.
- Workers at the Swift Beef Co. plant in Greeley, Colorado, are ending their strike and will return to work on Tuesday.
- The striking workers, represented by the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7 union, have been fighting for higher wages and better health care.
- JBS USA, the plant owner and the world's largest meatpacking company, has agreed to reopen negotiations with the union later in the week.
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Workers plan to halt strike at major US meatpacking plant and resume negotiations
Workers at one of the nation’s largest meatpacking plants plan to return to work next week and halt a three-week strike in order to resume negotiations with the plant's owner.
Workers plan to halt strike at major US meatpacking plant and resume negotiations - Regional Media News
Workers at one of the nation's largest meatpacking plants have agreed to return to work and halt a three-week strike after plant owner JBS USA agreed to resume negotiations, labor union representatives announced Saturday. The strike by thousands of workers at the Swift Beef Co. plant in Greeley, Colorado, began on March 16 in coordination with the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7 union in a bid for higher wages and better health care. …
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