Union fails to bring home the bacon at another Smithfield packing plant.

PositionEastern - United Food and Commercial Workers International Union - Brief article

Lightning didn't strike twice in North Carolina for the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union. Workers at the Smithfield Packing Co. bacon plant in Wilson voted 338-181 against union representation. In December, the Washington, D.C.-based union won an election about 90 miles away at the company's massive pork-processing plant in Tar Heel. That victory came after a 16-year fight (cover story, April 2008) with the company's...

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