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By ESTES THOMPSON, Associated Press Writer
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. - A few hundred employees at a massive Smithfield Foods Inc. hog slaughterhouse missed work Monday after a union called for a walkout to protest the company's decision to not make Martin Luther King Jr. Day a paid holiday.
But it was difficult to tell if the workers didn't come to work because of the union or because of other reasons, Smithfield spokesman Dennis Pittman said.
On a typical day, about 100 to 150 people miss a shift, and on Monday there were as many as 150 additional employees absent, Pittman said. He said he couldn't tell why the workers didn't come but that the plant _ which has two daily shifts of 2,500 people _ continued operations.
The United Food and Commercial Workers Union estimated that 400 people among the 2,500 scheduled to work Monday morning walked out or did not come to work. The union has been running an organizing campaign at the plant and already lost one election.
snip
The plant in Tar Heel, about 80 miles south of Raleigh, employs about 5,000 people and is considered the largest hog processing plant in the world.
A large number of workers at the plant are black or Hispanic, union officials have said, although they did not provide numbers.
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By ESTES THOMPSON, Associated Press Writer
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. - A few hundred employees at a massive Smithfield Foods Inc. hog slaughterhouse missed work Monday after a union called for a walkout to protest the company's decision to not make Martin Luther King Jr. Day a paid holiday.
But it was difficult to tell if the workers didn't come to work because of the union or because of other reasons, Smithfield spokesman Dennis Pittman said.
On a typical day, about 100 to 150 people miss a shift, and on Monday there were as many as 150 additional employees absent, Pittman said. He said he couldn't tell why the workers didn't come but that the plant _ which has two daily shifts of 2,500 people _ continued operations.
The United Food and Commercial Workers Union estimated that 400 people among the 2,500 scheduled to work Monday morning walked out or did not come to work. The union has been running an organizing campaign at the plant and already lost one election.
snip
The plant in Tar Heel, about 80 miles south of Raleigh, employs about 5,000 people and is considered the largest hog processing plant in the world.
A large number of workers at the plant are black or Hispanic, union officials have said, although they did not provide numbers.
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By ESTES THOMPSON, Associated Press Writer
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. - A few hundred employees at a massive Smithfield Foods Inc. hog slaughterhouse missed work Monday after a union called for a walkout to protest the company's decision to not make Martin Luther King Jr. Day a paid holiday.
But it was difficult to tell if the workers didn't come to work because of the union or because of other reasons, Smithfield spokesman Dennis Pittman said.
On a typical day, about 100 to 150 people miss a shift, and on Monday there were as many as 150 additional employees absent, Pittman said. He said he couldn't tell why the workers didn't come but that the plant _ which has two daily shifts of 2,500 people _ continued operations.
The United Food and Commercial Workers Union estimated that 400 people among the 2,500 scheduled to work Monday morning walked out or did not come to work. The union has been running an organizing campaign at the plant and already lost one election.
snip
The plant in Tar Heel, about 80 miles south of Raleigh, employs about 5,000 people and is considered the largest hog processing plant in the world.
A large number of workers at the plant are black or Hispanic, union officials have said, although they did not provide numbers.
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By ESTES THOMPSON, Associated Press Writer
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. - A few hundred employees at a massive Smithfield Foods Inc. hog slaughterhouse missed work Monday after a union called for a walkout to protest the company's decision to not make Martin Luther King Jr. Day a paid holiday.
But it was difficult to tell if the workers didn't come to work because of the union or because of other reasons, Smithfield spokesman Dennis Pittman said.
On a typical day, about 100 to 150 people miss a shift, and on Monday there were as many as 150 additional employees absent, Pittman said. He said he couldn't tell why the workers didn't come but that the plant _ which has two daily shifts of 2,500 people _ continued operations.
The United Food and Commercial Workers Union estimated that 400 people among the 2,500 scheduled to work Monday morning walked out or did not come to work. The union has been running an organizing campaign at the plant and already lost one election.
snip
The plant in Tar Heel, about 80 miles south of Raleigh, employs about 5,000 people and is considered the largest hog processing plant in the world.
A large number of workers at the plant are black or Hispanic, union officials have said, although they did not provide numbers.
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By ESTES THOMPSON, Associated Press Writer
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. - A few hundred employees at a massive Smithfield Foods Inc. hog slaughterhouse missed work Monday after a union called for a walkout to protest the company's decision to not make Martin Luther King Jr. Day a paid holiday.
But it was difficult to tell if the workers didn't come to work because of the union or because of other reasons, Smithfield spokesman Dennis Pittman said.
On a typical day, about 100 to 150 people miss a shift, and on Monday there were as many as 150 additional employees absent, Pittman said. He said he couldn't tell why the workers didn't come but that the plant _ which has two daily shifts of 2,500 people _ continued operations.
The United Food and Commercial Workers Union estimated that 400 people among the 2,500 scheduled to work Monday morning walked out or did not come to work. The union has been running an organizing campaign at the plant and already lost one election.
snip
The plant in Tar Heel, about 80 miles south of Raleigh, employs about 5,000 people and is considered the largest hog processing plant in the world.
A large number of workers at the plant are black or Hispanic, union officials have said, although they did not provide numbers.
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By ESTES THOMPSON, Associated Press Writer
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. - A few hundred employees at a massive Smithfield Foods Inc. hog slaughterhouse missed work Monday after a union called for a walkout to protest the company's decision to not make Martin Luther King Jr. Day a paid holiday.
But it was difficult to tell if the workers didn't come to work because of the union or because of other reasons, Smithfield spokesman Dennis Pittman said.
On a typical day, about 100 to 150 people miss a shift, and on Monday there were as many as 150 additional employees absent, Pittman said. He said he couldn't tell why the workers didn't come but that the plant _ which has two daily shifts of 2,500 people _ continued operations.
The United Food and Commercial Workers Union estimated that 400 people among the 2,500 scheduled to work Monday morning walked out or did not come to work. The union has been running an organizing campaign at the plant and already lost one election.
snip
The plant in Tar Heel, about 80 miles south of Raleigh, employs about 5,000 people and is considered the largest hog processing plant in the world.
A large number of workers at the plant are black or Hispanic, union officials have said, although they did not provide numbers.
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By ESTES THOMPSON, Associated Press Writer
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. - A few hundred employees at a massive Smithfield Foods Inc. hog slaughterhouse missed work Monday after a union called for a walkout to protest the company's decision to not make Martin Luther King Jr. Day a paid holiday.
But it was difficult to tell if the workers didn't come to work because of the union or because of other reasons, Smithfield spokesman Dennis Pittman said.
On a typical day, about 100 to 150 people miss a shift, and on Monday there were as many as 150 additional employees absent, Pittman said. He said he couldn't tell why the workers didn't come but that the plant _ which has two daily shifts of 2,500 people _ continued operations.
The United Food and Commercial Workers Union estimated that 400 people among the 2,500 scheduled to work Monday morning walked out or did not come to work. The union has been running an organizing campaign at the plant and already lost one election.
snip
The plant in Tar Heel, about 80 miles south of Raleigh, employs about 5,000 people and is considered the largest hog processing plant in the world.
A large number of workers at the plant are black or Hispanic, union officials have said, although they did not provide numbers.
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By ESTES THOMPSON, Associated Press Writer
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. - A few hundred employees at a massive Smithfield Foods Inc. hog slaughterhouse missed work Monday after a union called for a walkout to protest the company's decision to not make Martin Luther King Jr. Day a paid holiday.
But it was difficult to tell if the workers didn't come to work because of the union or because of other reasons, Smithfield spokesman Dennis Pittman said.
On a typical day, about 100 to 150 people miss a shift, and on Monday there were as many as 150 additional employees absent, Pittman said. He said he couldn't tell why the workers didn't come but that the plant _ which has two daily shifts of 2,500 people _ continued operations.
The United Food and Commercial Workers Union estimated that 400 people among the 2,500 scheduled to work Monday morning walked out or did not come to work. The union has been running an organizing campaign at the plant and already lost one election.
snip
The plant in Tar Heel, about 80 miles south of Raleigh, employs about 5,000 people and is considered the largest hog processing plant in the world.
A large number of workers at the plant are black or Hispanic, union officials have said, although they did not provide numbers.
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By ESTES THOMPSON, Associated Press Writer
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. - A few hundred employees at a massive Smithfield Foods Inc. hog slaughterhouse missed work Monday after a union called for a walkout to protest the company's decision to not make Martin Luther King Jr. Day a paid holiday.
But it was difficult to tell if the workers didn't come to work because of the union or because of other reasons, Smithfield spokesman Dennis Pittman said.
On a typical day, about 100 to 150 people miss a shift, and on Monday there were as many as 150 additional employees absent, Pittman said. He said he couldn't tell why the workers didn't come but that the plant _ which has two daily shifts of 2,500 people _ continued operations.
The United Food and Commercial Workers Union estimated that 400 people among the 2,500 scheduled to work Monday morning walked out or did not come to work. The union has been running an organizing campaign at the plant and already lost one election.
snip
The plant in Tar Heel, about 80 miles south of Raleigh, employs about 5,000 people and is considered the largest hog processing plant in the world.
A large number of workers at the plant are black or Hispanic, union officials have said, although they did not provide numbers.
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By ESTES THOMPSON, Associated Press Writer
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. - A few hundred employees at a massive Smithfield Foods Inc. hog slaughterhouse missed work Monday after a union called for a walkout to protest the company's decision to not make Martin Luther King Jr. Day a paid holiday.
But it was difficult to tell if the workers didn't come to work because of the union or because of other reasons, Smithfield spokesman Dennis Pittman said.
On a typical day, about 100 to 150 people miss a shift, and on Monday there were as many as 150 additional employees absent, Pittman said. He said he couldn't tell why the workers didn't come but that the plant _ which has two daily shifts of 2,500 people _ continued operations.
The United Food and Commercial Workers Union estimated that 400 people among the 2,500 scheduled to work Monday morning walked out or did not come to work. The union has been running an organizing campaign at the plant and already lost one election.
snip
The plant in Tar Heel, about 80 miles south of Raleigh, employs about 5,000 people and is considered the largest hog processing plant in the world.
A large number of workers at the plant are black or Hispanic, union officials have said, although they did not provide numbers.
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By ESTES THOMPSON, Associated Press Writer
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. - A few hundred employees at a massive Smithfield Foods Inc. hog slaughterhouse missed work Monday after a union called for a walkout to protest the company's decision to not make Martin Luther King Jr. Day a paid holiday.
But it was difficult to tell if the workers didn't come to work because of the union or because of other reasons, Smithfield spokesman Dennis Pittman said.
On a typical day, about 100 to 150 people miss a shift, and on Monday there were as many as 150 additional employees absent, Pittman said. He said he couldn't tell why the workers didn't come but that the plant _ which has two daily shifts of 2,500 people _ continued operations.
The United Food and Commercial Workers Union estimated that 400 people among the 2,500 scheduled to work Monday morning walked out or did not come to work. The union has been running an organizing campaign at the plant and already lost one election.
snip
The plant in Tar Heel, about 80 miles south of Raleigh, employs about 5,000 people and is considered the largest hog processing plant in the world.
A large number of workers at the plant are black or Hispanic, union officials have said, although they did not provide numbers.
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By ESTES THOMPSON, Associated Press Writer
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. - A few hundred employees at a massive Smithfield Foods Inc. hog slaughterhouse missed work Monday after a union called for a walkout to protest the company's decision to not make Martin Luther King Jr. Day a paid holiday.
But it was difficult to tell if the workers didn't come to work because of the union or because of other reasons, Smithfield spokesman Dennis Pittman said.
On a typical day, about 100 to 150 people miss a shift, and on Monday there were as many as 150 additional employees absent, Pittman said. He said he couldn't tell why the workers didn't come but that the plant _ which has two daily shifts of 2,500 people _ continued operations.
The United Food and Commercial Workers Union estimated that 400 people among the 2,500 scheduled to work Monday morning walked out or did not come to work. The union has been running an organizing campaign at the plant and already lost one election.
snip
The plant in Tar Heel, about 80 miles south of Raleigh, employs about 5,000 people and is considered the largest hog processing plant in the world.
A large number of workers at the plant are black or Hispanic, union officials have said, although they did not provide numbers.
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By ESTES THOMPSON, Associated Press Writer
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. - A few hundred employees at a massive Smithfield Foods Inc. hog slaughterhouse missed work Monday after a union called for a walkout to protest the company's decision to not make Martin Luther King Jr. Day a paid holiday.
But it was difficult to tell if the workers didn't come to work because of the union or because of other reasons, Smithfield spokesman Dennis Pittman said.
On a typical day, about 100 to 150 people miss a shift, and on Monday there were as many as 150 additional employees absent, Pittman said. He said he couldn't tell why the workers didn't come but that the plant _ which has two daily shifts of 2,500 people _ continued operations.
The United Food and Commercial Workers Union estimated that 400 people among the 2,500 scheduled to work Monday morning walked out or did not come to work. The union has been running an organizing campaign at the plant and already lost one election.
snip
The plant in Tar Heel, about 80 miles south of Raleigh, employs about 5,000 people and is considered the largest hog processing plant in the world.
A large number of workers at the plant are black or Hispanic, union officials have said, although they did not provide numbers.
http://finance.comcast.net/www/news.html?x=http://www.comcast.net/data/news/2007/01/15/562774.xml&cvqh=itn_mlk_protest
By ESTES THOMPSON, Associated Press Writer
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. - A few hundred employees at a massive Smithfield Foods Inc. hog slaughterhouse missed work Monday after a union called for a walkout to protest the company's decision to not make Martin Luther King Jr. Day a paid holiday.
But it was difficult to tell if the workers didn't come to work because of the union or because of other reasons, Smithfield spokesman Dennis Pittman said.
On a typical day, about 100 to 150 people miss a shift, and on Monday there were as many as 150 additional employees absent, Pittman said. He said he couldn't tell why the workers didn't come but that the plant _ which has two daily shifts of 2,500 people _ continued operations.
The United Food and Commercial Workers Union estimated that 400 people among the 2,500 scheduled to work Monday morning walked out or did not come to work. The union has been running an organizing campaign at the plant and already lost one election.
snip
The plant in Tar Heel, about 80 miles south of Raleigh, employs about 5,000 people and is considered the largest hog processing plant in the world.
A large number of workers at the plant are black or Hispanic, union officials have said, although they did not provide numbers.
andrew
01-16-2007, 08:08 AM
once they form the union, they can demand that mlk day be a paid holiday.
andrew
01-16-2007, 08:08 AM
once they form the union, they can demand that mlk day be a paid holiday.
andrew
01-16-2007, 08:08 AM
once they form the union, they can demand that mlk day be a paid holiday.
andrew
01-16-2007, 08:08 AM
once they form the union, they can demand that mlk day be a paid holiday.
andrew
01-16-2007, 08:08 AM
once they form the union, they can demand that mlk day be a paid holiday.
andrew
01-16-2007, 08:08 AM
once they form the union, they can demand that mlk day be a paid holiday.
andrew
01-16-2007, 08:08 AM
once they form the union, they can demand that mlk day be a paid holiday.
andrew
01-16-2007, 08:08 AM
once they form the union, they can demand that mlk day be a paid holiday.
andrew
01-16-2007, 08:08 AM
once they form the union, they can demand that mlk day be a paid holiday.
andrew
01-16-2007, 08:08 AM
once they form the union, they can demand that mlk day be a paid holiday.
andrew
01-16-2007, 08:08 AM
once they form the union, they can demand that mlk day be a paid holiday.
andrew
01-16-2007, 08:08 AM
once they form the union, they can demand that mlk day be a paid holiday.
andrew
01-16-2007, 08:08 AM
once they form the union, they can demand that mlk day be a paid holiday.
andrew
01-16-2007, 08:08 AM
once they form the union, they can demand that mlk day be a paid holiday.
Salty
01-16-2007, 11:33 AM
I like seeing news like this of worker's standing up for their rights. There are so many people working under bad conditions nowadays with no benefits and no security in their jobs. And the only way they will get these things is by demanding them, and by realizing that their owners are nothing without them and their labor. Workers have much more power than they think.
Salty
01-16-2007, 11:33 AM
I like seeing news like this of worker's standing up for their rights. There are so many people working under bad conditions nowadays with no benefits and no security in their jobs. And the only way they will get these things is by demanding them, and by realizing that their owners are nothing without them and their labor. Workers have much more power than they think.
Salty
01-16-2007, 11:33 AM
I like seeing news like this of worker's standing up for their rights. There are so many people working under bad conditions nowadays with no benefits and no security in their jobs. And the only way they will get these things is by demanding them, and by realizing that their owners are nothing without them and their labor. Workers have much more power than they think.
Salty
01-16-2007, 11:33 AM
I like seeing news like this of worker's standing up for their rights. There are so many people working under bad conditions nowadays with no benefits and no security in their jobs. And the only way they will get these things is by demanding them, and by realizing that their owners are nothing without them and their labor. Workers have much more power than they think.
Salty
01-16-2007, 11:33 AM
I like seeing news like this of worker's standing up for their rights. There are so many people working under bad conditions nowadays with no benefits and no security in their jobs. And the only way they will get these things is by demanding them, and by realizing that their owners are nothing without them and their labor. Workers have much more power than they think.
Salty
01-16-2007, 11:33 AM
I like seeing news like this of worker's standing up for their rights. There are so many people working under bad conditions nowadays with no benefits and no security in their jobs. And the only way they will get these things is by demanding them, and by realizing that their owners are nothing without them and their labor. Workers have much more power than they think.
Salty
01-16-2007, 11:33 AM
I like seeing news like this of worker's standing up for their rights. There are so many people working under bad conditions nowadays with no benefits and no security in their jobs. And the only way they will get these things is by demanding them, and by realizing that their owners are nothing without them and their labor. Workers have much more power than they think.
Salty
01-16-2007, 11:33 AM
I like seeing news like this of worker's standing up for their rights. There are so many people working under bad conditions nowadays with no benefits and no security in their jobs. And the only way they will get these things is by demanding them, and by realizing that their owners are nothing without them and their labor. Workers have much more power than they think.
Salty
01-16-2007, 11:33 AM
I like seeing news like this of worker's standing up for their rights. There are so many people working under bad conditions nowadays with no benefits and no security in their jobs. And the only way they will get these things is by demanding them, and by realizing that their owners are nothing without them and their labor. Workers have much more power than they think.
Salty
01-16-2007, 11:33 AM
I like seeing news like this of worker's standing up for their rights. There are so many people working under bad conditions nowadays with no benefits and no security in their jobs. And the only way they will get these things is by demanding them, and by realizing that their owners are nothing without them and their labor. Workers have much more power than they think.
Salty
01-16-2007, 11:33 AM
I like seeing news like this of worker's standing up for their rights. There are so many people working under bad conditions nowadays with no benefits and no security in their jobs. And the only way they will get these things is by demanding them, and by realizing that their owners are nothing without them and their labor. Workers have much more power than they think.
Salty
01-16-2007, 11:33 AM
I like seeing news like this of worker's standing up for their rights. There are so many people working under bad conditions nowadays with no benefits and no security in their jobs. And the only way they will get these things is by demanding them, and by realizing that their owners are nothing without them and their labor. Workers have much more power than they think.
Salty
01-16-2007, 11:33 AM
I like seeing news like this of worker's standing up for their rights. There are so many people working under bad conditions nowadays with no benefits and no security in their jobs. And the only way they will get these things is by demanding them, and by realizing that their owners are nothing without them and their labor. Workers have much more power than they think.
Salty
01-16-2007, 11:33 AM
I like seeing news like this of worker's standing up for their rights. There are so many people working under bad conditions nowadays with no benefits and no security in their jobs. And the only way they will get these things is by demanding them, and by realizing that their owners are nothing without them and their labor. Workers have much more power than they think.
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