Workers at the Holten Meat facility in Sauget, Ill., have rejected the company’s contract offer and have gone on strike. According to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, members of the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 655 voted 124-38 against the second contract offer. Those numbers authorized a strike after three months of negotiations.
“The issue here is not over economics,” said David Cook, the union local’s president. He said the critical issue was seniority language relating to job mobility.