JBS USA

Workers at one of the nation's largest meatpacking plants plan to return to work next week and halt a three-week strike in order to resume negotiations with the plant's owner. The strike by thousands of workers at the Swift Beef Co. plant in Greeley began on March 16.

The meatpacking giant in Greeley says some employees are not joining the picket line and coming to work instead, for “stability” and to “support their families." Listen to "Morning Edition" host Michael Lyle, Jr. discuss this story with Colorado Sun reporter Tracy Ross and then read the entire article at the link below.

Workers at JBS USA’s meatpacking plant took to the picket line Monday, with union employees braving temperatures in the teens in the first such strike at a U.S. meatpacking plant in decades.

Last week, union members at the JBS meatpacking plant in Greeley voted overwhelmingly to go on strike. They’re doing so to ask for safer working conditions. It’s happening at a moment of uncertainty for many of the workers who are refugees and not U.S. citizens. We dig into the backstory.

Greeley will not move forward with the purchase of the JBS USA headquarters building in the Promontory business park, with the city focusing instead on funding of a new civic campus downtown.

Some of the toughest jobs in Colorado are done by workers at a meatpacking plant in Greeley. Workers there slaughter and process hundreds of head of cattle each day. And now, they live under the threat that changing immigration policies may force them to return to dangerous situations in their home countries. Today on In The NoCo we’ll hear from a reporter who spent time getting to know them.

Union officials are calling for an investigation of meatpacking giant JBS USA after The Wall Street Journal highlighted substandard living conditions faced by Haitian immigrants working at the Greeley plant.

The Greeley-based meatpacking giant JBS is being challenged by a national truth-in-advertising group over its greenhouse gas emissions reduction statements. Essentially, the company is being accused of “greenwashing” its operations by touting an ambitious climate goal that it has no viable plan to achieve.

Meatpacking giant JBS has agreed to a $52.5 million settlement in a beef price-fixing lawsuit that some say supports their concerns about how the lack of competition in the industry affects prices.