People are uniting to fight poverty level wages, brutal conditions and crippling injuries affecting 6,000 workers at the world's largest hog processing plant.

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Smithfield Foods has earned a place of dishonor in our Corporate Hall of Shame.

Read more about Smithfield's abuse of its employees in a worker's own words. Click here for Edward Morrison's story.

To learn more, visit the United Food and Commercial Workers' campaign site.

In the News

"On the Killing Floor"(New York Times, June 19, 2006)

"Where the Hogs Come First" (New York Times, June 15, 2006)