Workers at the JBS-owned meatpacking plant in Greeley, Colorado, plan to begin a labor strike Monday.
Members of United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7, the union representing 3,800 workers at the plant, voted last month to authorize an 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.
“The goal of negotiations is never to go on strike, but when the Company violates workers’ rights and ignores workers’ concerns about safety and health, the Company give(s) workers no choice but to stand together in solidarity and show the Company that they cannot be silenced,” UFCW Local 7 President Kim Cordova said in a statement…