Bringing Home The Bacon...Not So Much

[Omaha Steve]

Bringing Home The Bacon...Not So Much
It's been 100 years since Upton Sinclair's The Jungle exposed horrific conditions faced by workers in the meatpacking industry. Unfortunately, time is standing still at Smithfield Packing company in Tar Heel, North Carolina. Poverty wages, brutal conditions, and crippling injuries are part of every day life for workers at the world's largest hog processing plant. Help us flood the phone lines of Smithfield's CEO Joe Luter. In FY 2005, he made $10.8 million while many workers were paid less than $10 an hour. Call Luter at [phone] and tell him to respect his workers' rights. Check out Justice at Smithfield for more info.