Meatpacking workers
How the Smithfield workers of Sioux Falls stood up and won
June 29, 2021Unafraid of a company that cruelly exploited them during the pandemic, they saved their healthcare and won a pay raise.
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In win for UFCW workers, USDA dumps Trump pork line speedups
June 2, 2021Biden administration throws in the towel on an experimental line speedup program at pork plants started under Trump.
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Nebraska kosher meat packing plant leaves workers trayf—unclean—vs. coronavirus
November 25, 2020It’s not just the workers who are unprotected; so is the community. The virus has spread in Hastings, as it has in other meatpacking-heavy cities in the Great Plains, to other residents.
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United Food and Commercial Workers: OSHA’s Smithfield fine ‘a slap on the wrist’
September 14, 2020WASHINGTON—The Trump regime’s $13,494 fine against the infamous Smithfield pork production plant in Sioux Falls, S.D.—a plant where company failure to protect workers against the coronavirus infected at least 1,300 of them and endangered the whole...
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Meatpackers sue OSHA demanding virus safety enforcement at Maid-Rite plant
July 24, 2020The workers said in their lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Harrisburg that even though OSHA has known about conditions at the plant since early April, it’s done nothing.
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