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Victory for Smithfield Workers
BY Angela Denio | Tar Heel, NC | 12/14/08
After over a decade of struggle the workers of the Smithfield Packing Plant in Tar Heel, North Carolina voted Dec. 11 to join the United Food and Commercial Workers Union (UFCW).
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1000 March for Workers’ Rights, Justice at Smithfield
BY Kati Ketz | Williamsburg, VA | 9/16/07
150 Smithfield workers were joined by 1000 supporters here, Aug. 29 - in what was the largest demonstration in this city’s history - to demand justice for factory workers at Smithfield’s Tar Heel, North Carolina plant.
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Demand Justice for Smithfield Workers
BY Kosta Harlan | Asheville, NC | 7/11/06
“What’s disgusting? Union busting!” Over 40 students with the Justice at Smithfield campaign began their countrywide tour here with a spirited picket of a local Ingles supermarket.
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