Workers from a Smithfield plant are protesting. See why.
CHARLOTTE -- The president of Harris Teeter is being asked to personally help out a group of workers from the world’s largest pork processing plant.
Protestors from Smithfield Packing’s Tar Heel, North Carolina plant want to unionize and fix, what they say, are unsafe working conditions.
They walked to the Harris Teeter president’s south Charlotte home and left him a Father’s Day card, asking for his help.
A Father's Day protest card.
“We are asking him to take the products off the shelf as a way of demonstrating that the public needs to know that this was packaged with abuse.”
Calls to Smithfield Packing were not immediately returned.
In a statement released in March, a Harris Teeter spokesperson said any issue between Smithfield, it’s employees and labor organizations have to be resolved among themselves.
The chain said it would be inappropriate for them to get involved.