PROCESSING DIVISION
 

VICTORY!!
Dakota Workers Defeat Employer Antti-Union Campaign!
January 25, 2008

 

Plant-gate action at Dakota Premium
January 21, 2008

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Slaughterhouse Rules: Is South St. Paul's Dakota Premium Foods plant "in open-warfare mode" against labor? Organizers: beef-processing plant is using recent immigration raids to bust union By Paul Demko
January 16, 2008

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Packinghouse bill exposes another set of divides
in state - By Doug Grow, Star Tribune April 20, 2007

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Legislative session heading for showdown Twin Cities Daily Planet, April 18, 2007
The 2007 legislative session appears headed for a showdown between Republican Governor Tim Pawlenty and the DFL-controlled Legislature over several issues important to working families,

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Meat-Processing Companies Lose U.S. Supreme Court Wage Fight
Published: Nov. 8, 2005
Source: Bloomberg/Greg Stohr

Workers at meat-processing plants must be paid for the time they spend walking between their work stations and the locker rooms where they don and doff protective gear, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled.

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Jennie-O Information and Organizing Updates

 

 

For Immediate Release
January 25, 2008

Contact: Bernie Hesse
651-216-3827

Dakota Workers Say Union Yes!

South St. Paul, MN-

Workers voted to retain union representation at Dakota Premium in South St. Paul, MN. The margin of victory was overwhelmingly in favor of the union by a two to one margin.
"The message was clear that workers wanted a voice at work and that voice will continue to be Local 789 United Food & Commercial Workers Union", in a statement released by Don Seaquist, president of Local 789.

Local 789 UFCW hopes the election will send a message to the company to sit down and bargain a good contract for its workers.

 

 
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