Roughly 200 United Meals and Business Staff (UFCW) Native 7 members who work at JBS-owned Denver Processing meat plant voted Dec. 10 to strike in protest of “the corporate’s continued unfair labor practices.” Negotiations between UFCW and the corporate started on Sept. 10, however the events have failed to return to an settlement. The plant processes each beef and pork.
Kim Cordova, vp of UFCW Worldwide and president of UFCW Native 7 in Colorado and Wyoming, which represents 27,000 employees, mentioned in assertion that as an alternative of negotiating with the plant employees, Denver Processing has been conducting unfair labor practices by unilaterally altering office insurance policies that haven’t been bargained on.
“These techniques, a few of that are presently pending with the Nationwide Labor Relations Board, create a precarious and sometimes harmful office for these important employees who risked their well being and dwelling throughout the pandemic in order that we may have meat on our tables.”
If administration on the plant and JBS management fail to return to the desk with proposals that honor the employees, Cordova mentioned employees “have advised us loud and clear they’re ready to stroll out.”
UFCW didn’t present a begin date for the strike.
JBS had not supplied a remark by the point of publication.
