FOOD & COMMERCIAL WORKERS (UFCW)
UFCW Strike Puts Meatpacker Out of Business
Broken by a 2-week UFCW Local 271 strike, meatpacker BeefAmerica said
Jul. 28 that it is going out of business. It will close its only plant
putting 1,300 UFCW members and managers in Norfolk, NE, out of work. "The
strike [was] something the company did not expect or anticipate and [was]
very costly," said a company spokesman. The company lost "hundreds of thousands
of dollars" each week of the strike. [Des Moines Register 07/29/98]
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