date:Jul 22, 2014
Union negotiators and JSB USA recently reached a tentative labor agreement, averting a strike.
The bargaining committee for the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 7 fully recommended the proposed deal, which will be put to a vote on July 22. Local 7 represents 3,000 workers at the JBS USA beef-processing plant in Greeley, Colo.
Local 7 members rejected an earlier offer submitted by JBS USA on concerns that the deal shifted too much of the burden of health benefit costs onto employ