Labor

November 27, 2006 - This weekend, the Dallas Morning News wrapped up an eye-opening, three-part series about work in the meatpacking industry.

November 20, 2006 - The United Food and Commercial Workers have just issue the following statement about where things stand with the Smithfield Foods walkout, which we've been

November 20, 2006 - Katrina vanden Heuvel of The Nation writes about the walk-out of 1,000 workers at Smithfield Foods in North Carolina last week -- which, by sheer coincidence, started one day before the film version of Fast Food Nation hit movie theaters nationwide.

November 18, 2006 - After a massive walk-out that eventually involved over 1,000 employees, workers at Smithfield Foods have gone back to work -- for now:

November 16, 2006 - As Facing South reported earlier, today over 500 workers spontaneously walked off their jobs at Smithfield Foods, to protest "abuse and intimidation" after the c

November 16, 2006 - We've written before at Facing South about Smithfield Foods, the meat-processing giant which runs the largest pork-processing plant in the world in Tarheel, North Carolina.

October 16, 2006 - Mining is a dangerous job, and this year it's taken an especially big toll.