All Pilgrim’s Pride Nacogdoches workers,
Your Local Union Bargaining Committee and Local Union leadership met with the Pilgrim’s Pride leadership in Nacogdoches, Tx. on Monday, June 22nd. In that meeting, the Company leadership presented a final offer to the Local Union Bargaining Committee.
Your Local Union bargaining committee and leadership reviewed the offer but made the Company aware that the offer falls short of rewarding workers in key areas, but we would work on a counter proposal. The Company leadership left the meeting room, and left the venue, without notifying the Local Union Bargaining Committee and leadership that they would be leaving for the day. The Local Union Bargaining Committee found out the Company had left when they reached out to let the Company know that the Union was ready to present a counter proposal. The Company has spent the last 11 months proposing offers that don’t fully reward you and your families for the hard work you do every day. The Local Union Bargaining Committee did present a counter to the Company’s offer, via email, and we are awaiting a response. Union negotiators are calling the Company each day until we hear back.
In the meantime, it is important, now more than ever, to vote to give your Local Union Bargaining Committee strike authorization, by clicking this link, or by reaching out to the Union Representatives Oscar Martinez, Rydell Cummings, or Josias Alvarado, if you have not done so already.
If you have any questions about bargaining or the company’s offer, or you want to get more involved with your Union, contact Oscar Martinez as your Union Representative.
The Company’s Offer falls short in the following key areas:
- Union Bargaining Committee- does not have the support or recommendation of your Union Bargaining Committee.
- Wages- first year offer of $0.80, but the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th year wage offers are less than $0.50 per year
- 4-year deal- longer contract, during a time of economic uncertainty, coupled with low wage offers in the out years of the contract.
- Attendance-implemented a change in April of 2025 that they did not negotiate with the Local Union and are not offering a guaranteed fix.
- Vacation- the Company proposed an offer that would reward all bargaining unit employees with more vacation time, similar to what they offer the non-Union employees, but the Company, in bad faith, later moved backwards on their proposal and offered a lesser improvement only for a small number of employees. See the Company’s proposal on the right not included in the Company’s Final Offer.
Company Vacation Proposal That The Union Tried To Secure For You That The Company Withdrew That’s Not Apart Of The Company’s Final Offer*
Pilgrim’s Vacation Proposal 12/16/25 (Article 13, Section 1. Vacation.)
Section 1. Eligibility.
a. All employees, upon completion of one (1) year with less than 2 years of continuous service and who have completed at least sixty (60) hours from the date of employment, shall be entitled to one (1) eight (80) weeks of vacation with pay.
b. All employees, with more than 2 years but less than 4 years upon completion of three (3) years of continuous service from date of employment, shall be entitled to two (2) weeks 96 hours vacation with pay.
c. All employees, with 4 years but less than 5 years upon completion of nine (9) years of continuous service from date of employment, shall be entitled to three (3) weeks 104 hours of vacation with pay.
d. All employees, with 5 years but less than 10 years upon completion of twenty (20) years of continuous service from date of employment shall be entitled to four (4) weeks 120 hours of vacation with pay.
e. All employees, with 10 years but less than 15 years of continuous service from date of employment, shall be entitled to 144 hours of vacation with pay.
f. All employees, with 15 years but less than 25 years of continuous service from date of employment, shall be entitled to 160 hours of vacation with pay.
g. All employees, with 25 years or more of continuous service from date of employment, shall be entitled to 200 hours of vacation with pay.
h. Upon completion of required years of service, the vacations shall be taken during the year immediately following the completion of such terms of service and at a time mutually satisfactory to Management and the employee and may not be carried over from one year to the next.
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Working together we can and will make Pilgrim’s Pride Nacogdoches a better place to work.
In Solidarity,
Your Union Bargaining Committee and your Local Union President
W. Brandon Hopkins
