Meatpacking company cuts compensation. (John Morrell and Co.) (Developments in Industrial Relations)

From: Monthly Labor Review | Date: May 1, 1989| Author: Ruben, George | Copyright information

Meatpacking company cuts compensation

The troubled labor-management relationship at John Morrell & Co. was exacerbated when the company imposed cuts in wages and benefits on 2,000 employees of its Sioux Falls, SD, meatpacking plant. The company's action came after it declared an impasse in its bargaining with Local 304A of the United Food and Commercial Workers on a contract to succeed one that had expired in late November 1988.

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