Workers at a poultry plant in south Georgia just negotiated a new union agreement with higher pay and better benefits. But the union believes the agreement won’t just help that plant.
The facility in Camilla is owned by Tyson Foods Inc. and produces chicken nuggets for McDonald’s. There are three other non-union plants nearby, and Edgar Fields, president of the Southeast Council of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, said this new agreement will have an effect on those plants too.
“A lot of what poultry pays is based on union facilities,” he said. “What companies do is look at, ‘I’ve got to compete with the union wages to keep the employees satisfied so they won’t want a union.’”
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