07/03/2009 06:49 PM | Via: Sun News

Union savors long-awaited victory at pork plant

After nearly 17 years of struggle, employees at the world's largest pork plant went to work under a union contract for the first time Thursday. Eighty-four percent of the approximately 5,000 employees at Smithfield Foods' slaughterhouse in Bladen County, about 80... read the full story

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