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Feeling Pressure, Smithfield Files Lawsuit

Last week, the Justice @ Smithfield team reported that Smithfield Foods had abruptly called off negotiations with employee representatives from the Tar Heel plant.

Feeling Pressure, Smithfield Files Lawsuit

Call-to-Action

What: Solidarity support needed for tobacco field workers in bid for union recognition

How: March on Reynolds American headquarters. Download the action flyer

Call-to-Action

Weekly Labor Quote - E. Roosevelt

"Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home -- the factory, farm, or office. Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere.

Weekly Labor Quote - E. Roosevelt

Press Clips October 18, 2007

• Veto funding for children’s health care? What could you be thinking?

Press Clips October 18, 2007

Press Clips October 17, 2007

• Fed chief says credit crisis will slow growth into '08
• Study: ARM Borrowers Don't Know the Terms

Press Clips October 17, 2007

Press Clips October 16, 2007

• Mortgage Poll Finds Some Borrowers May Cut Back on Groceries as Rates Rise

Press Clips October 16, 2007