RICO

  • SEIU Settles Sodexo’s Racketeering Suit, with Organizing Gains Uncertain
    Mischa Gaus
    Nov 14 2011 - 10:05am

    The Service Employees' corporate campaign at the food-service giant Sodexo ended September in secrecy. It’s unclear if the agreement includes provisions that organizers say have led to success elsewhere.

  • Smithfield Workers To Vote on Union

    Jane Slaughter

    In a surprise settlement, Smithfield Foods dropped its multimillion-dollar racketeering lawsuit against the United Food and Commercial Workers, Jobs with Justice, and the Change to Win federation October 27. The company agreed instead to a set of rules that will govern a vote on December 10 and 11 for union representation at its hog slaughterhouse in Tar Heel, North Carolina. . . .


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