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3,800 meatpacking workers - UFCW Local 7 - at JBS #Greeley organized a three-week unfair labor practice strike - the first for 40 years !

https://labornotes.org/2026/04/after-three-week-strike-jbs-concedes-meatpacking-workers

#Colorado #LabourMOvement #meatpackers #Migrantworkers #Organize #solidarity #Strikes #unions

After Three-Week Strike, JBS Concedes to Meatpacking Workers

Last month, 3,800 meatpacking workers in UFCW Local 7 in Greeley, Colorado launched the industry’s first major strike in 40 years. The three-week unfair labor practice strike was the first time workers had ever struck the JBS Greeley beef packing plant, one of the company’s largest. ULP charges against JBS included the illegal termination of a member of the bargaining committee and surveillance and intimidation of workers for participation in union activity.

Labor Notes

Peter Link 🍉🇨🇺🇵🇸🐧Apr 18

#Colorado #Meatpackers End #Strike, Will Return to Work
https://world-outlook.com/2026/04/06/colorado-meatpackers-end-strike-will-return-to-work/

from #WorldOutlook
April 6, 2026

“The company walked away,” Cordova told the crowd of more than 800 #workers from the day shift picket lines. “They believed that you would not walk out on strike.”

But of the 3,800 workers in the plant represented by the #union, 94% did walk on March 16, marking the first major packinghouse strike in 40 years.[1]

The workers’ action had an impact, according to the union. About 60% of the cattle earmarked for JBS went to competitors as the company tried to operate with the remaining hourly workforce and supervisors.

“The problem is the way we are being treated,” Hector Vargas told World-Outlook before the April 3 union meeting at the parking lot. “To keep up with work means taking a beating. And you cannot go to the bathroom. They make you wait a long time — if they let you go.”

#news #politics #USpol #labor #LaborMovement
#immigrants #WorkersRights #UFCW

Colorado Meatpackers End Strike, Will Return to Work

GREELEY, COLORADO — On April 4, 2026, United Food & Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 7 announced it was ending a strike against the meatpacking giant JBS Swift here “after JBS agreed to return to the negotiating table,” according to the union’s press release. Local 7 said bargaining has been set for April 9-10, which was the basis for the decision to return to work on April 7. There has been no other motion toward resolution of the issues that sparked the strike. This article provides eyewitness coverage from the picket lines that World-Outlook reporters visited on April 3, the day before the walkout ended.

World-Outlook

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Peter Riley Apr 2

https://www.democracynow.org/2026/4/1/meatpacking_strike_colorado

#democracynow #Greeley #Labourmovement #Meatpackers #migrantworkers #Organize #Strikes #unions

Immigrant Workers in Colorado Lead “Historic Strike” at JBS, Largest U.S. Meat Processor

More than 3,000 meatpacking workers in Greeley, Colorado, have been on strike since mid-March, the first major labor strike in the U.S. meatpacking industry since 1985. Workers at JBS USA, the U.S. subsidiary of Brazilian-based multinational JBS, are protesting unfair and dangerous labor conditions, including low wages, lack of personal protective gear and discrimination against its majority-immigrant workforce. “This company is one of the richest companies in the world, and the wage increases that they’re offering simply just don’t keep up with the economy and the high cost of living,” says Kim Cordova, president of the union that represents JBS workers in Greeley. “These workers literally feed America,” adds organizer Caitlyn Clark, director at the labor rights nonprofit Essential Workers for Democracy. “This is really a historic strike. These workers are standing up not just for their own plant, but the meatpacking industry as a whole.”

Democracy Now!

Peter Riley Mar 26

3,800 workers and Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 7 union members at JBS beef processing plant in #Greeley, Colorado, walked off the job on an unfair labor practice strike on March 16. This is the first strike ever at the Greeley plant—one of the largest in the country—and it’s the biggest meatpacking strike in the US since the 1985-86 strike at the Hormel plant in Austin, Minnesota.

https://therealnews.com/immigrant-workers-launch-largest-us-meatpacking-strike-in-40-years

#Labourmovement #migrantworkers #meatpackers #Organize #Strikes

Immigrant workers launch largest US meatpacking strike in 40 years

“Workers are fighting to be able to afford the same food that they produce for the rest of the country, to be able to buy beef at the grocery store and not have to buy Top Ramen.”

The Real News Network

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Peter Riley Mar 24

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https://labornotes.org/2026/03/57-languages-meatpackers-strike-first-time-40-years

https://www.ew4d.org/

#EW4D #Greeley Colorado
#LabourMovement #MeatPackers #Organize #Solidarity #Strikes #UFCW

In 57 Languages, Meatpackers Strike for the First Time in 40 Years

In less than a quarter-mile stretch of sidewalk, chatter in 57 languages overlaps with the sound of dancehall, bachata, Thai pop, Haitian kompa, and Micronesian hip-hop. At sunset, dozens gather for iftar, breaking their Ramadan fast; the music, pulsing from boomboxes and cell phones held up to megaphones, swells into one shared hum. In this sliver of land across from the sprawling JBS beef processing plant—among the largest in the country—workers from around the world have united in the largest U.S. meatpacking strike in 40 years.

Labor Notes

MichaelJ Oct 21, 2025

No Help from Trump on Beef Prices

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Sep 21, 2024

https://inthesetimes.com/article/alabama-slavery-prison-labor-incarcerated-company-exploit-capitalism-lawsuit

#InTheseTimes

Lawsuit: #Alabama Is Denying Prisoners Parole in order to Lease Their Labor to #Meatpackers, #McDonalds

by #KimKelly 19 April 2024

You get no parole if you're still profitable.

#USAShitShow #convictleasing

Lawsuit: Alabama Is Denying Prisoners Parole to Lease Their Labor to Meatpackers, McDonalds

No parole if you’re still profitable.

In These Times

Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬May 10, 2024

No one has seen the data behind #Tyson’s “climate friendly beef”
Tyson—one of “big four” #meatpackers—applied to #USDA, seeking a “climate friendly” label for its Brazen Beef. #BrazenBeef claims a “10% #greenhousegas reduction.”
“There are lots of misleading claims on food, but it’s hard to imagine a claim that’s more misleading than ‘climate friendly’ beef,” said #EWG
Millions of taxpayer dollars flow to #livestock companies raising "low carbon" #beef. https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/05/no-one-has-seen-the-data-behind-tysons-climate-friendly-beef-claim/

No one has seen the data behind Tyson’s “climate friendly beef” claim

Millions of taxpayer dollars flow to livestock companies raising "low carbon" beef.

Ars Technica

Peter Riley Apr 24, 2024

Alabama Is Denying Prisoners Parole to Lease Their Labor to #Meatpackers, #McDonalds (No parole if you’re still profitable.)
https://inthesetimes.com/article/alabama-slavery-prison-labor-incarcerated-company-exploit-capitalism-lawsuit

Photographs: Guards supervise a group of convict-lease prisoners in Birmingham, Ala. & Convict-lease prisoners at the Banner Mine in Alabama.
Source: BIRMINGHAM PUBLIC LIBRARY ARCHIVES
#FightLikeHell book cover

#alabama #capitalism #exploitation #prisonlabor #USSW #RWDSU #union
#inthesetimes #kimKelly