The Nation - News from July 26, 1987
Striking meat cutters reached a tentative agreement in Omaha with IBP Inc., and they are to vote today on whether to end a seven-month labor dispute at the company’s Dakota City, Neb., plant. The agreement between IBP and Local 222 of the United Food and Commercial Workers was announced by a federal mediator. About 2,200 members of the local have been on strike at the plant since March 16 in a dispute that began last December when contract talks broke off and the company locked out all 2,800 employees.
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