Workers at the JBS USA-owned Swift Beef Co. plant in Greeley, Colorado, began a historic strike following union allegations of retaliation and unfair labor practices during contract negotiations
Approximately 3,800 employees at one of the country’s biggest meatpacking facilities were poised to walk off the job Monday morning in Colorado in what union leaders described as the first stoppage at a U.S. beef processing plant since the 1980s.
The work stoppage at the Swift Beef Co. facility in Greeley, Colorado, was scheduled to commence at 5:30 a.m. MDT, according to Kim Cordova, president of United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7, which represents the employees….