Unions Say Meat Plants Relaxed COVID-19 Safety Measures After Outbreaks December 26, 2021 By Tom Polansek Smithfield Foods, the world’s largest pork producer, last year assigned a team of dedicated employees to enforce social distancing and...
Report Finds Meat Plant Workers’ COVID Cases Much Higher Than Previous Estimates October 28, 2021 By Leah Douglas Workers at the leading U.S. meatpacking plants experienced cases and death from COVID-19 that were up to three times previous...
Meatpacker Fined $175K After Colorado Worker Loses Arm September 7, 2021 Meatpacking giant JBS USA has been issued five citations and fines totaling nearly $175,000 after a worker’s arm was amputated...
Meat Producer JBS Paid $11M in Ransom to Cyber Attackers June 10, 2021 By Andrew G. Simpson Meat producer JBS USA paid the equivalent of $11 million in ransom in response to the May 30 criminal hack...
Meat Plant Workers Being Denied Workers’ Compensation for COVID-19: Reuters September 29, 2020 By Tom Hals and Tom Polansek Saul Sanchez died in April, one of six workers with fatal COVID-19 infections at meatpacker JBS USA’s slaughterhouse in Greeley,...
Meat Packing Plant Owners Defend Operations During Pandemic July 27, 2020 By Michael Hirtzer and Isis Almeida As part of an investigation into the spread of coronavirus at U.S. meat plants, Democratic Senators Elizabeth Warren and Cory...
Meat Workers Taking Leave, Quitting as Plants Reopen Amid Coronavirus Scare May 6, 2020 By Jen Skerritt and Lydia Mulvany America’s meat-processing plants are starting to reopen but not all workers are showing up. Some still fear they’ll get sick...
5,000 Meat, Food Plant Workers Exposed to Coronavirus, Union Says April 24, 2020 By Tom Polansek More than 5,000 U.S. meat and food-processing workers have been infected with or exposed to the new coronavirus, and 13...
Despite Virus Outbreak, Midwest States Work to Keep Meat Plants Open April 22, 2020 By Ryan J. Foley Governors in the Midwest are working to keep large meatpacking plants operating despite coronavirus outbreaks that have sickened hundreds of...