& people wonder why the workers have lost so much in the last thirty years? It took nine years for this to finally come to justice.
"Nearly nine years after a unionization drive failed, a federal appeals court has ruled that the Smithfield Packing Company repeatedly broke the law in battling unionization at its giant pork-processing plant in Tar Heel, N.C.
"In a decision released on Monday, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit upheld a broad cease-and-desist order that the National Labor Relations Board issued against Smithfield in 2004 in response to complaints by the United Food and Commercial Workers. The union accused Smithfield of illegally skewing a 1997 election by intimidating and firing workers.
"Concluding that Smithfield had engaged in "intense and widespread coercion," the appeals court upheld the labor board's ruling that one worker was improperly coerced when he was ordered to stamp hogs with a "Vote No" stamp."
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I wish I could spell the name of the Polish fellow who worked hard for labor in that country. Welenko is the phonetic. I loved the slogan:
solidarinosk (again phonetic), whick I assume means simply Solidarity.
It's about time. thanks for the article.
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