After three weeks on the picket line, 3,800 workers at the JBS meatpacking plant in Greeley are heading back to the kill floor. They have no new contract. They have no safety guarantees. They have only a 'promise' of further talks. This is what the defeat of the biological working class looks like. JBS, the world's largest meat company, held the line until the strikers' pockets were empty. They know that every day a human worker is on strike is another day their engineers move closer to total robotic automation.

Beef prices are hitting record highs, but the men and women doing the butchering can’t afford the products they process. This is 'Synthetic Serfdom' in the making. The bosses are waiting for the robots to arrive to purge the 'biological friction' of unions and safety complaints. The strike was a test of endurance that the workers, squeezed by inflation and wage theft, simply couldn't win. They return to work in a plant that treats them as temporary placeholders for a future that has no room for human labor.