job safety
UFCW: Tyson rivals Smithfield in its disregard for workers
June 26, 2020LOGANSPORT, Ind.—The now-infamous Smithfield pork production plant in South Dakota apparently has a “rival” of sorts among food processing factories that have become coronavirus pandemic hotspots. Welcome to the Tyson Foods pork processing plant in Logansport,...
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As COVID-19 rages, America’s meatpacking workers battle for their lives
June 26, 2020Their sons and daughters, the Children of Smithfield, organize to save their parents, their children, and themselves.
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Under pressure, feds reverse decision to close coronavirus testing sites
April 10, 2020Under pressure from Pennsylvania lawmakers and a report on National Public Radio, the GOP Trump government’s Health and Human Services Department abruptly reversed a ruling to cut off dollars to some 41 community coronavirus testing sites...
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AFL-CIO: Trump job safety rollbacks endanger workers’ lives
April 26, 2019Zachary Hess died on the job. And the AFL-CIO is warning there could be more Zachary Hesses, thanks to Donald Trump.
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Crushed hands show need for not crushing job safety protections
March 22, 2017Congressional Republicans and Trump, however, aren’t listening.
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