Smithfield union workers walkout, protest labor screening process - North Carolina

“More than 300 workers, many of them Hispanic, walked out of a Smithfield Foods Inc. hog slaughtering plant Thursday, protesting a labor screening process and what they described as management intimidation and abuse.

“There’s a long train of abuses in that plant really going back more than a dozen years,” Gene Bruskin, a representative of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union who serves as the Smithfield campaign director, told The Associated Press. “Recently the activity in the plant has been increasing.”"

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