Labor

January 26, 2007 - This week brought two big pieces of news at the embattled Smithfield Foods plant in Tar Heel, North Carolina -- the largest hog processing plant in the world.

January 15, 2007 - About 400 workers at the giant Smithfield hog-processing facility in Tar Heel, N.C. missed the first shift today to protest the company's decision not to give them the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday as a paid day off, the Associated Press reports:

December 14, 2006 - Jobs with Justice's sixth annual online "Grinch of the Year" contest is underway, and one of the companies nominated for the dubious distinction -- designed to recognize the national figure who did the most harm to working families in the past year -- is Joseph Luter III, chairman of

December 14, 2006 - If there was ever a time that a limit on state spending shouldn't apply, one could say that recovering from the biggest "natural disaster" in history would be it.

December 6, 2006 - If you or your children get sick and have to stay home from work, you should be able to stay home without getting your pay docked or losing your job, right? It seems like common sense -- indeed, 60% of Americans think it's already the law.

November 27, 2006 - This weekend, the Dallas Morning News wrapped up an eye-opening, three-part series about work in the meatpacking industry.

November 20, 2006 - The United Food and Commercial Workers have just issue the following statement about where things stand with the Smithfield Foods walkout, which we've been