Thousands of striking workers at JBS's Greeley, Colorado beef plant will return to work Monday after reaching an agreement to resume contract negotiations. The United Food and Commercial Workers International Union announced that JBS agreed to new talks scheduled for April 9 and 10, ending a three-week strike that began March 16.

JBS's Greeley facility, which processes about 6,000 cattle daily or roughly 5% of U.S. beef-processing capacity, had been shut down since the strike began. The 3,800 workers had been seeking better terms after the union negotiated a new long-term contract last year covering 26,000 JBS workers across more than a dozen U.S. facilities. The agreement also included a pension plan for meatpacking workers for the first time in decades.

The strike represented the largest at a U.S. meat-processing plant in decades, highlighting ongoing labor tensions in the industry. With negotiations set to resume next week, the return to work provides immediate relief to beef supply chains that had been disrupted by the shutdown.