Meatpacking workers
Locked out: Cargill workers battle a billion-dollar bully
June 25, 2026Workers at a Colorado plant can’t even afford the meat they process on the line every day.
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Workers walk in first major meatpacking strike in 40 years
March 17, 2026The strike against a big beef plant run by JBS Foods is over poverty wages and unsafe conditions on the job.
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How the Smithfield workers of Sioux Falls stood up and won
June 29, 2021Unafraid of a company that cruelly exploited them during the pandemic, they saved their healthcare and won a pay raise.
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In win for UFCW workers, USDA dumps Trump pork line speedups
June 2, 2021Biden administration throws in the towel on an experimental line speedup program at pork plants started under Trump.
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Nebraska kosher meat packing plant leaves workers trayf—unclean—vs. coronavirus
November 25, 2020It’s not just the workers who are unprotected; so is the community. The virus has spread in Hastings, as it has in other meatpacking-heavy cities in the Great Plains, to other residents.
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