JBS workers approve three-year contract

GREELEY – Union production workers at the JBS USA packing plant in Greeley overwhelmingly approved a new three-year contract that raises pay and improves worker benefits, according to a union spokeswoman.

“This deal is all gains for everybody,´ said Linda Sughroue, a 25-year veteran worker at the plant who helped negotiate the new contract. “It’s all positive, nothing negative.”

Ninety-nine percent of the members of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 7 voted to approve the new contract, according to a union statement. Workers will get pay raises, health insurance with better coverage and lower co-pays and premiums that will…