The First Major Meatpacking Strike in 40 Years Extends into Third Week

Update on 4/6: JBS workers have agreed to go back to work and the company is returning to the table, Mother Jones reports. 

Listen to / read our previous coverage on this strike, which workers had extended last week: Nearly 4,000 workers at the JBS beef processing plant in Greeley, Colorado, walked off the job on March 16, launching a two-week unfair labor practice strike that they had extended then into a third week. 

Workers spoke to Caitlyn Clark, an organizer at Essential Workers for Democracy, and Lisa Xu, a Labor Notes Organizer, who both join the pod this week.

Read Caitlyn and Lisa’s Labor Notes story on the strike here.

Learn more about the 1980s Hormel strike here. 

Support striking JBS workers by contributing to their strike fund, supporting Essential Workers for Democracy’s fundraiser, and learning more about the strike here. 

And learn more about the movement to revitalize the United Food and Commercial Workers in our podcast episode from June: “Grocery Workers at the UFCW are Organizing for a Fighting Union.”