Negotiators for John Morrell & Co. and the union representing 2,700 employees signed a tentative agreement in Chicago that could end a 12-week-old strike against the meatpacker in South

Dakota. The contract still must be ratified by United Food and Commercial Workers union members at Morrell’s Sioux Falls plant. Morrell is South Dakota’s largest employer. Details of the

agreement were not made public. MORE TO READ