Thousands of striking workers at one of the nation’s largest meatpacking plants will extend their walkout to a third week as they push for higher wages and better health care.
Industry experts said it’s too early to know if the strike that began March 16 at the Swift Beef Co. plant in Greeley, Colorado, will impact retail beef prices that already had soared to record levels.
“The workers know the value of their labor,” union President Kim Cordova said Friday. “This could be a long, drawn out fight.”
Owner JBS USA said Friday that it’s operating the plant at limited capacity and has shifted beef production elsewhere to meet customers needs.
Good for them. The us oligarchs have had it cushy for way too long
Glad to see for the workers.
They probably have a lot of leverage on account of not having a listeria outbreak which seems to be all the rage with meat packing facilities these days.
That and the fact that the plant is watching all of their product spoil on the shelves. Fresh meat isn’t exactly shelf-stable, and we’re quickly approaching “every single piece of meat in the plant needs to be thrown out. All of the machinery needs to be disassembled and thoroughly cleaned to disinfect it before any work can resume” levels.
