Labor

November 20, 2006 - Katrina vanden Heuvel of The Nation writes about the walk-out of 1,000 workers at Smithfield Foods in North Carolina last week -- which, by sheer coincidence, started one day before the film version of Fast Food Nation hit movie theaters nationwide.

November 18, 2006 - After a massive walk-out that eventually involved over 1,000 employees, workers at Smithfield Foods have gone back to work -- for now:

November 16, 2006 - As Facing South reported earlier, today over 500 workers spontaneously walked off their jobs at Smithfield Foods, to protest "abuse and intimidation" after the c

November 16, 2006 - We've written before at Facing South about Smithfield Foods, the meat-processing giant which runs the largest pork-processing plant in the world in Tarheel, North Carolina.

October 16, 2006 - Mining is a dangerous job, and this year it's taken an especially big toll.

October 13, 2006 - The following is a special Facing South report on work at Smithfield Foods, the meat-processing giant with its main pork plant -- the largest in the world -- in Tarheel, N.C. Earlier this month, Smithfield -- already the country's largest hog and pork producer, and fifth-largest beaf producer -- bought out ConAgra Foods Inc.

September 18, 2006 - One of the choicer pieces of dubious dealings revealed at the hearings today about war profiteering was the disclosure that Halliburton/KBR was offering medals to wounded employees -- but only if they agreed not to sue the company.