Meatpacking workers
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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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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