ARCHIVED  April 1, 1997

New union local gears up for Monfort contract talks

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GREELEY — Meat-packing workers at Monfort of Colorado Inc.’s Greeley plant will be represented by a new union local formed solely to represent them and production workers at the Longmont Foods main plant in Longmont.

Monfort and Longmont Foods are owned by ConAgra Inc.

The United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7 traditionally has represented the meat-packing employees, but it also is responsible for a membership that includes everything from bakery workers to cosmetologists.

Local 7 has headquarters in Wheat Ridge and had a small office in Greeley at U.S. Highway 85 and Second Avenue.

The new local, Local 990, recently leased 2,400 square…

Christopher Wood
Christopher Wood is editor and publisher of BizWest, a regional business journal covering Boulder, Broomfield, Larimer and Weld counties. Wood co-founded the Northern Colorado Business Report in 1995 and served as publisher of the Boulder County Business Report until the two publications were merged to form BizWest in 2014. From 1990 to 1995, Wood served as reporter and managing editor of the Denver Business Journal. He is a Marine Corps veteran and a graduate of the University of Colorado Boulder. He has won numerous awards from the Colorado Press Association, Society of Professional Journalists and the Alliance of Area Business Publishers.
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