United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7 members who work at the JBS flagship beef slaughterhouse in Greeley, Colorado, voted to ratify an improved new two-year contract by 93% April 12. UFCW Local 7 President Kim Cordova said in a…
GREELEY, Colo. — “JBS makes billions off our broken bodies. To them we are not worth as much as the beef going down the line,” John Trimble told the Militant. The 69-year-old Trimble says he has worked at the plant…
HAMMOND, Ind. — Hundreds of members of the United Steelworkers union, including oil refinery workers locked out by British Petroleum, and members of other unions in this area rallied outside of the main office of the Northern Indiana Public Service…
CINCINNATI — Workers at the Mars Kellanova plant here, members of Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers Local 57, are organizing solidarity with UFCW Local 7 meatpackers locked in a contract fight with JBS in Greeley, Colorado. Local 57…
WHITING, Ind. — One week after being locked out at the British Petroleum’s refinery here, United Steelworkers Local 7-1 stands strong, committed to fighting against BP’s union-busting takeaway contract offer. Over 800 union members were locked out March 19 after…
GREELEY, Colo. — As the 3,800 workers at the JBS packinghouse here end their third week on strike, the company is stonewalling their just demands. Workers maintain strong picket lines, with well over 1,000 pickets outside the plant on each…
WHITING, Ind. — Members of United Steelworkers Local 7-1 hit the picket lines outside the sprawling BP refinery here March 19, after the company locked them out in the midst of a contract dispute. The union represents over 800 operators,…
GREELEY, Colo. — Going into their second week on strike, hundreds of members of United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7 picketed outside the giant JBS meatpacking plant here March 24. Fed up with unsafe and abusive conditions in the…
GREELEY, Colo. — Some 3,800 meatpacking workers, members of United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7, went on strike at the big JBS plant here March 16. This is the first walkout at a U.S. beef slaughterhouse since 1985 when…
SHELBY, Ohio — Some 450 United Steelworkers members at the ArcelorMittal Tubular Products plant here have been on strike since Jan. 13 fighting demands by the company to limit health care for workers’ spouses and change their work schedule in…
