1,200 JBS WORKERS IN SOUDERTON OVERWHELMINGLY CHOOSE UNION REPRESENTATION

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.ufcw.org/press_room/index.cfm?pressReleaseID=512

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 05, 2010

Workers Join Together with 250,000 Meatpacking and Poultry Workers of the United Food and Commercial Workers Unio

(Souderton, PA.) – Nearly 1,200 workers at the JBS plant in Souderton, Pennsylvania, voted today to join the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 1776.

“I am delighted that we stood together and made the right choice to form a union,” said Bernard Coneghen, who has worked at the Souderton facility for 27 years. “We had the opportunity to speak with representatives of the UFCW about the benefits of having a voice at work and were able to make an informed choice about forming a union.”

The workers’ victory today was the successful conclusion of a months-long campaign designed to give a voice to the nearly 1,200 JBS workers in Souderton, but also as part of a UFCW-led nationwide effort aimed at raising wages and benefits for all workers in the meatpacking and poultry industries.

[defendandprotect]

1. k/r

[mediaman007]

2. I hope that the election was able to apply the Obama

ruling that negated the "non-vote is a no vote." Hopefully, more successful elections to come!