Thousands of meatpacking workers walk off job in first strike in 40 years

By Vanessa Yurkevich, CNN (CNN) — Thousands of meatpacking workers walked off the job at a JBS-owned plant in Colorado on Monday in the industry’s first strike in 40 years. JBS USA is the largest of the four major beef processing plants in the United States, which account for 85% of all US production. JBS