Dive Brief:

• JBS has agreed to a new contract with the union that represents slaughterhouse workers at its pork plant in Worthington, MN.
• The deal, which gives workers a 12.8% pay increase, and a year's worth of retroactive increases, comes a month after the local unit of the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union authorized a strike.
• The union will also keep its health plan, with "minor" changes, and a 401(k) plan. 

Dive Insight:

The union would appear to have done quite well in these negotiations. But JBS also accomplished its primary goal -- to figure out what it would take to reach peace with the union, and prevent a strike from spreading to its five other unionized operations here in the United States.