In 1954 she became the first woman president of a packinghouse local; later she was appointed one of the meat cutters' five international representatives, and in 1974 .
His purpose: to get a firsthand look at the hundreds of tons of offal that Omaha's $700 million-a-year packinghouse industry dumps into the river each day.
Chicago packinghouse labor lives "back of the yards" in a wide, dismal area of ramshackle homes and crumby tenements.
Marty Seifert in Minneapolis Star Tribune Joe Sixpack back home does not need more tax increases,argued House Minority Leader Marty Seifert, R-Marshall. "This is a morbidly obese tax increase and it's going to the packinghouse of the governor's office."