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Smithfield Foods' precedent-setting civil racketeering suit against the United Food and Commercial Workers' Union (UFCW) and several related defendants spawned critically important legal precedent that blazes a new trail for employers who are in search of litigation options for responding to non-traditional union organizing methods.

11 minute read April 27, 2009 at 08:01 AM
By
Gregory B. Robertson And Kurt G. Larkin
RICO

On Oct. 27, 2008, Judge Robert E. Payne approved and filed under seal a settlement agreement that marked the end of Smithfield Foods' precedent-setting civil racketeering suit against the United Food and Commercial Workers' Union (UFCW) and several related defendants.

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