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Pork processing workers reject deal, threaten strike
STEPHEN GROVES | Associated Press
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. – In a sign of meatpacking workers becoming emboldened by the pandemic s health threats and economic repercussions, the union at a South Dakota pork processing plant that experienced a bad novel coronavirus outbreak last year has overwhelmingly rejected a contract offer from Smithfield Foods and will move to bring the prospect of a strike to the negotiating table.
The Sioux Falls chapter of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union said 99% of union members who voted on the contract offered from Virginia-based Smithfield Foods rejected it.
A union at a South Dakota pork plant is considering a walkout after rejecting a contract with Smithfield foods. Meat-packing workers have been forced to navigate employment in a pandemic, and the
Smithfield union employees will vote whether to accept a contract from the company tomorrow. The Sioux Falls pork plant was the site of one of the largest