meatpacking

(Newser) - About 3,800 workers at one of the nation's largest meatpacking plants were set to strike Monday morning in Colorado in what union representatives said would be the first walkout at a US beef slaughterhouse since the 1980s. The strike at the Swift Beef Co. plant in Greeley was...

(Newser) - You'd probably be hard-pressed to find an American kid who says they dream of working at a slaughterhouse when they grow up, but a new meatpacking plant in Nebraska could actually change that. The Wall Street Journal reports that Sustainable Beef, a $400 million facility in North Platte, is...