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NOW from PBS|Food Fight Episode
Can labor unions still pack a punch for workers? This week, NOW travels to Tar Heel, North Carolina to investigate the twelve-year battle to unionize the world's largest pork processing plant. In so doing, NOW's Maria Hinojosa became the first TV journalist ever allowed to film inside the plant, owned by Smithfield Packing Company. Smithfield has been locked in a fight with the United Food and Commercial Workers Union (UFCW) for over a decade, amid court and government findings of past intimidation, physical violence, spying, and other violations of workers' rights. The outcome of the stand-off is a test case for organized labor's efforts to unionize low-wage workers, particularly in the traditionally anti-union South.
[ Fri, 15 Dec 2006 18:00:00 EST ]
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