Around 3,800 workers at one of the United States' largest meatpacking facilities were poised to strike on Monday morning in Colorado, marking what union representatives described as the first walkout at a US beef slaughterhouse since the 1980s.
The industrial action at the Swift Beef Co. plant in Greeley was scheduled to commence at 5.30am MDT, according to Kim Cordova, president of United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7, which represents the employees.
