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                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: WEDNESDAY, March 15, 1995                   TAG: 9503150060
SECTION: BUSINESS                    PAGE: B6   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: RALEIGH, N.C.                                 LENGTH: Short

TYSON TO APPEAL UNFAIR-LABOR RULING

Tyson Foods Inc. said Tuesday that it will appeal a decision by a three-judge federal panel upholding an unfair-labor practice ruling against Tyson and Holly Farms Corp.

The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday upheld a National Labor Relations Board ruling that Tyson, which bought Holly Farms in 1989, must pay back wages and benefits to 51 long-distance drivers still working for the company, rehire and give back pay to 47 other long-haul drivers and return 200 to 250 local drivers and yard workers to their 1989 employment conditions and give them back pay.

The board said the drivers' wages and benefits were unfairly reduced in 1989 during union organizing campaigns at its North Carolina processing facilities.

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