DENVER — Thousands of workers at Greeley’s JBS meatpacking plant will go on strike starting next Monday amid stalled contract negotiations and allegations of unfair labor practices.
United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7, which represents 22,000 union workers across Colorado and Wyoming, announced through social media Monday that union leaders had issued formal notice of the strike to JBS. The strike will begin Monday, March 16 at 5:30 a.m.
Around 3,800 employees work at the Greeley plant, though it was not immediately clear if all would be participating…