Union Wins Vote at World's Largest Hog Slaughterhouse

A decade-long battle over pay and worker-safety issues appears to have ended last week with a vote by workers to unionize at the giant Smithfield Packing Co. hog slaughterhouse in Tarheel, N.C.The United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW) announced workers voted 2,041 to 1,879 to authorize collective bargaining by the union at the Tarheel facility, which is considered the largest hog slaughterhouse in the world.The plant slaughters 32,000 hogs a day and has been the subject of 10 years of litigation between the union and Smithfield Foods.In October, UFCW and Smithfield sett...