IWW: THIS WEEK IN LABOR

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.pww.org/index.php/article/articleview/10933/1/368

Injustice doesn’t taste right

Fifty people picketed the Harris Teeter grocery store in Greensboro, N.C., March 31 to protest the sale there of items “packaged with abuse” at Smithfield Packing’s Tar Heel plant. The plant, the world’s largest hog slaughterhouse, has been cited by Human Rights Watch for illegal activity to thwart a 14-year drive by workers to unionize, and for creating an environment of intimidation, racial tension and violence for workers who want a voice on the job.

The protest was one of 22 demonstrations held that day at Harris Teeter supermarkets in eight Southern states. “If necessary we will escalate this fight for a boycott until we get whatever we need to bring justice to the workers at Smithfield,” said the Rev. William Barber, president of the North Carolina NAACP.

Carolyn Coleman, a Greensboro county commisioner who joined the protest, said, “I just think I don’t want to eat any more Smithfield products. You know, its something about injustice that just doesn’t make the meat taste right.”

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