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  • The story of Joe Luter and Smithfield
  • Cheap labor built on a legacy of slavery
  • Lots of pigs, lots of poop, lots of politics, lots of pollution
  • The plant opens, the work is beastly, the union fight heats up
  • The first union vote
  • The plant changes southeastern North Carolina
  • The company woman
  • The second union vote, 1997
  • The trial : Buffkin and Luter testify
  • The judge rules
  • Organizing on the road
  • Gene Bruskin rides into town
  • The union campaign, Harris Teeter
  • Ludlum is back : Immigration enforcement tightens
  • Workers walk off the job
  • The stockholders, secret talks, stalemate
  • Rico, the settlement, the third union vote, the end.