UNION VOTES TO STRIKE DAKOTA CITY IBP PLANT The United Food and Commercial Workers union, Local 222 said its members voted Sunday to strike the Iowa Beef Processors Inc Dakota City, Neb., plant, effective Tuesday. The company said it submitted its latest offer to the union at the same time announcing that on Tuesday it would end a lockout that started December 14. Union members unanimously rejected the latest company offer that was submitted to the union late last week, UFCW union spokesman Allen Zack said.