December 15, 2008
IN A tremendous victory for everyone fighting for respect on the job in the South and throughout the country, workers at Smithfield Foods' Tar Heel, N.C., plant voted to join the United Food and Commercial Worker
According to the UFCW, the results of the December 10-11 election at the world's largest hog-killing plant was 2,041 to 1,879--a close vote, but a tremendous accomplishment in the face of management's all-out campaign against the union that defeated two previous elections.
Although union representatives were unable to speak with the press under conditions of an October legal settlement in which Smithfield agreed to drop a racketeering lawsuit against the union, there was little argument that this represented a historic moment for organizing in the anti-union South.
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