Nearly 4,000 Colorado workers at one of the country’s largest meatpacking plants began a strike Monday over wages, working conditions and “unlawful union busting” by the plant’s corporate owner.
Members of United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7 voted nearly unanimously last month to authorize the so-called unfair labor practices strike. The union has been in talks with JBS on a new collective bargaining contract since a previous four-year agreement expired in July.
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