Overview
- Workers at JBS’s Swift Beef plant in Greeley will be back on the line at 5 a.m. Tuesday after the company agreed to restart negotiations.
- Two in-person bargaining sessions are set for April 9 and 10, and JBS says its “last, best and final” offer still stands.
- The three-week strike, which began March 16, sought higher wages, better health coverage, and an end to charges for replacing protective gear.
- JBS says it will ramp up operations next week, while the union says it will keep pressing over what it calls unfair labor practices.
- The plant’s role in U.S. beef supply drew broad attention because cattle numbers sit at a 75-year low, beef prices are at records, and this was the first U.S. slaughterhouse strike since 1985.