Smithfield Foods' suit against the UFCW comes as no surprise, given the company's abuse of the law for more than a decade. The company's violations against workers at its Tar Heel, North Carolina, plant are well documented in public records, including illegally firing, intimidating, assaulting, using racial epithets and spying on workers. Twice workers attempted to exercise a choice for union representation at the Tar Heel plant, and twice the company suppressed their rights by violating...

In our proposal, we have agreed to limit our campaign activities, offered to provide the union leaders access to our messages before we share them with the employees, and given the UFCW unprecedented opportunities to communicate directly with our employees. In our proposal, we have agreed to limit our campaign activities, offered to provide the union leaders access to our messages before we share them with the employees, and given the UFCW unprecedented opportunities to communicate...

EpiCentre is a mixed-use project under way at College, Trade and Fourth streets that will include entertainment -- a six-screen cinema and bowling alley -- shops, restaurants, a hotel and a condo tower. Smithfield Foods inc. and the union trying to organize the company's massive hog slaughterhouse in Tar Heel said Monday they have broken off talks on holding an organizing election. Both sides have waged an often public campaign in the effort to unionize the world's largest hog processing...

Lean hogs are called mixed on withering pork cutout values and soft cash hog price calls against possible short covering and front-months' extremely oversold chart indicators. Pork imports for the first eight months of the year are down slightly from the same period last year but also on pace to be about 8. Such a scenario may become reality if a growing alliance of livestock and poultry producers, along with packing companies and retail and food service venders, has its way. The Toronto...

Supplies of pork and chicken are expected to be large this fall and winter due to producers increasing production in reaction to profitable prices, analysts said. meat companies were lower Friday, amid concerns about an abundance of meat and news this week that Russia was banning pork and chicken from some U. At first glance, it doesn't appear it will directly impact pork exports that greatly, since Russia was already a declining pork trading partner, Jonathan Feeney, Wachovia food...