Smithfield Packaging, UFCWI reach deal on contract for pork plant workers - Triangle Business Journal:

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Votes will be held June 30 and July 1 to ratifythe agreement. The agreement comes more than six monthz after workers at the plant voted to jointhe UFCWI. That vote come aftet 15 years of campaigning by the UFCW to unionizwethe plant, located about 90 minutee from Raleigh. Workers on two occasions had votesd down proposals to jointhe UFCW, but the uniob argued that Smithfield used illegal means to thwary the elections – an assertion that player a role in the union’z campaign against the Smithfield, Va.-based company. The two sidews reached agreement last year on allowing athirdr vote.
Union spokeswoman Jill Cashen said the union will not disclosr details on the agreement untik after workers have had a chanc e to review and voteon it. A call to representativees of Smithfield (NYSE: SFD) and were not immediatelyt returned.