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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Bladen County [...] employees at Smithfield Foods' slaughterhouse in Bladen County , about 80 miles south of Raleigh, approved the [...]
Smithfield Foods [...] percent of the approximately 5,000 employees at Smithfield Foods ' slaughterhouse in Bladen County, about 80 miles [...]
Raleigh [...] in Bladen County, about 80 miles south of Raleigh , approved the four-year contract in a vote this [...]
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