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| 2009 | ||||||||||
| WORKERS AT WORLD'S LARGEST PORK PLANT RATIFY FIRST-EVER UNION CONTRACT | ||||||||||
| July 01, 2009 | ||||||||||
| Five Thousand workers at the world’s largest pork processing plant have their first-ever union contract, after a majority of workers ratified the agreement over a two-day vote. Members of UFCW Local 1208 will join more than 10,000 other Smithfield workers, and more than 240,000 others who work in the meat packing and food processing industry who have a UFCW union contract. | ||||||||||
| TAR HEEL SMITHFIELD WORKERS REACH TENTATIVE AGREEMENT | ||||||||||
| June 26, 2009 | ||||||||||
| Smithfield Packing Company and the bargaining committee of the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 1208 reached a tentative agreement on a first contract for the workers at the Tar Heel pork processing facility. | ||||||||||
| UFCW Members Take Capitol Hill by Storm to Call for Health Care Reform | ||||||||||
| June 25, 2009 | ||||||||||
| Hundreds of UFCW members from across the country flooded the halls of Congress today to tell how the health care crisis has impacted working Americans and to send a strong message to those in Washington that health care reform cannot wait. | ||||||||||
| NATIONAL COMMISSION CONDEMNS WORKPLACE IMMIGRATION RAIDS | ||||||||||
| June 18, 2009 | ||||||||||
| A National Commission investigating immigration enforcement under the Bush Administration released a comprehensive new report today documenting the devastation and destruction that immigration raids had on families, workplaces and communities across the country. | ||||||||||
| STATEMENT FROM JOE HANSEN, UFCW INTERNATIONAL PRESIDENT | ||||||||||
| June 18, 2009 | ||||||||||
| WASHINGTON, DC – A horrific accident took the lives of three workers and injured 41 others in an explosion and roof collapse at the ConAgra Foods Inc. facility in Garner, North Carolina, on June 9, 2009. The United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 204 represents 900 workers in that facility. | ||||||||||
| UFCW STATEMENT ON TRAGIC EVENT AT CONAGRA PLANT IN GARNER, NORTH CAROLINA | ||||||||||
| June 11, 2009 | ||||||||||
| A horrific accident took the lives of three workers and injured 41 others in an explosion and roof collapse at the ConAgra Foods Inc. facility in Garner, North Carolina, on June 9, 2009. | ||||||||||
| Local 1529 Holds Community Forum Calling on Congress to Pass Employee Free Choice | ||||||||||
| May 12, 2009 | ||||||||||
| UFCW Local 1529 members and community leaders met on May 7th in a community forum to discuss how the current economic crisis affects their livelihoods and offer Main Street solutions to hard working Americans. | ||||||||||
| UFCW Statement on DOL Budget | ||||||||||
| May 08, 2009 | ||||||||||
| UFCW International Statement on DOL Budget | ||||||||||
| UFCW STATEMENT REGARDING DHS GUIDELINES ON WORKPLACE RAIDS | ||||||||||
| May 01, 2009 | ||||||||||
| The United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW) today released the following statement in response to an announcement by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) that the agency would be making policy changes with regard to workplace immigration raids. | ||||||||||
| WALMART WORKERS HOLD HISTORIC NATIONAL ORGANIZING MEETING | ||||||||||
| April 30, 2009 | ||||||||||
| Walmart workers from across the nation are converging today on Capitol Hill for a National Organizing Meeting to brief Senators about wages, benefits and the Employee Free Choice Act. | ||||||||||
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