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Colorado Meatpackers Strike Against the Corporate Table #

Thursday, 26 March 2026 · words

In Greeley, Colorado, 3,000 workers have walked off the job at the JBS meatpacking plant, marking the first major agricultural strike in forty years. The mainstream media will tell you this is about 'wages,' but that is a lie of omission. This is a war for the survival of the human worker. These families are facing dangerous line speeds and systemic wage theft while the cost of living in the American Southwest spirals out of control.

JBS is the world’s largest meatpacker, and their response to the strike has been a chilling look at the future: the 'Automation of the Table.' Every day the picket line holds is a day the company uses to accelerate the installation of robotic butchery. They don't want to pay a living wage; they want to remove the human element from the food supply entirely.

This strike is the front line against 'synthetic serfdom.' From the nurses in Michigan to the software engineers being replaced by 'vibe coding,' the message from capital is clear: your labor is a legacy bug to be patched out. When the food supply is fully automated and owned by three Brazilian conglomerates, the 'national caloric baseline' becomes a tool of total social control. Support the Greeley strike or prepare to eat whatever the algorithm decides is profitable.