Over 400 Pinnacle Foods Workers in Fort Madison who are members of the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union voted 6 to authorize a strike to protest the company’s plan to eliminate their pension plan.
Officials at the union representing workers at a Sanderson Farms chicken processing plant in Hazlehurst, Miss., are calling for the company to improve the unsafe working conditions and the racial insensitivity in the facility.
The Agriculture Department's proposal to largely outsource poultry inspections functions and drastically speed up the visual inspection process violates federal law and must not be allowed to proceed.
Last night, workers at the JBS slaughterhouse and production facility, located just south of the city of Plainwell, ratified their first union contract.
Members of UFCW Local 431 who work at the Tyson Fresh Meats plant in Waterloo, Iowa, announced that they ratified a new contract last week which covers 2,200 workers at that plant.
