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RALEIGH, N.C. -
Workers at the world's largest pork slaughterhouses in rural North Carolina are deciding on a contract offer from a Smithfield Foods subsidiary.
As many as 5,000 workers at the packing plant near Lumberton will finish voting Wednesday on an initial union contract. Both sides have refused to describe details of the deal until the vote is counted late Wednesday.
The company and the United Food and Commercial Workers had been locked in a bitter dispute over union organizing efforts since the plant opened in 1992.
Workers at the Tar Heel plant complained of injuries from the fast pace of the butchering process. Others complained that they were treated as dispensable.
The plant processes up to 32,000 live hogs a day.
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