Overview
- UFCW Local 7 members at JBS’s Greeley beef plant approved the contract Sunday with 93% support, clearing the way for normal operations to resume after a three-week walkout.
- Pay increases include an immediate 70-cent hourly raise with two 40-cent bumps to follow, which the union says adds up to about a 33% gain over two years.
- Workers will receive a $750 ratification bonus now and a $500 payment in April 2027, with no retroactive pay for the months since the prior contract expired.
- The company will cover personal protective equipment and reimburse past PPE charges, and the deal limits increases in health care costs that workers must pay.
- JBS says the union will withdraw seven unfair-labor-practice charges and that pension dollars were shifted into wages, while union leaders dispute two withdrawals and reject the company’s pension characterization.