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  • Scared Smithfield workers stay home

    01/26/2007 1:29:47 PM PST · by kennedy · 62 replies · 1,596+ views
    FayObserver.com ^ | January 26, 2007 | Jennifer Plotnick
    The 21 Smithfield Packing Co. employees arrested by immigration officials while they worked Wednesday are in the process of being deported. The 20 men and one woman arrested were moved Thursday from the Mecklenburg County Jail to Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, Ga., nearly 700 miles from Tar Heel. Meanwhile, church officials within the region’s Hispanic community and spokespeople with the United Food & Commercial Workers union said the workers’ families didn’t know where they were and other immigrant workers were terrified of more arrests. Production at the plant was substantially diminished Thursday as workers stayed away. “There are hundreds...
  • Smithfield Workers Walk Out Of N Carolina Plant In Protest [undocumented workers' protest]

    11/17/2006 5:32:18 AM PST · by Brilliant · 49 replies · 1,496+ views
    https://us.etrade.com ^ | November 17, 2006 | AP via Dow Jones Newswires
    More than 300 workers, many of them Hispanic, walked out of a Smithfield Foods Inc. (SFD) North Carolina 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." Bruskin said Smithfield officials have failed to address problems of sexual harassment, inappropriate firings and...