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Podcast: Power At Work
Episode: Power At Work Blogcast #99: How Workers Win – UFCW Contract Victory at JBS
Description: In this blogcast, Burnes Center for Social Change Senior Fellow Seth Harris is joined by Mark Lauritsen, Veronica Cruz-Velandia, and Leehanyi Baptista to discuss the important and impressive collective bargaining victory by the meatpacking workers at JBS Foods and their union, the United Food and Commercial Workers.Listen now to learn about a historic collective bargaining win by the UFCW’s members in negotiations with JBS Foods and some of the specifics of what is included in that contract. Discussed are the members’ experience of sitting across the table from a large multi-national corporation and demanding what the...