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...
Union Votes to Strike at S.D. Pork Plant That Had Big Virus Outbreak June 9, 2021 By Stephen Groves The union at a Smithfield Foods pork processing plant in South Dakota said it would head to contract negotiations armed...
Coronavirus Safety: U.S. Behind Global Rivals in Protecting Meat Plant Workers September 22, 2020 By Mike Dorning, Brian Parkin and Ainslie Chandler The U.S. government is falling behind global rivals when it comes to protecting meatpacking workers from Covid-19 infections, even though...
Startups Developing Technologies to Clean Air in Workplaces of Coronavirus September 21, 2020 By Larissa Zimberoff Smithfield Foods Inc. thought it was doing great. In the first quarter of this year, the pork giant’s earnings were...
OSHA Cites Smithfield Foods For Lax Coronavirus Safety for Meat Plant Workers September 11, 2020 By Tom Polansek and P.J. Huffstutter The U.S. Labor Department said on Thursday it cited Smithfield Foods for failing to protect employees from the coronavirus, making...
Absenteeism at Meatpacking Plants Tied to Workplace Safety Concerns June 15, 2020 By Tom Polansek and Andy Sullivan Smithfield Foods Inc. is missing about a third of its employees at a South Dakota pork plant because they are...
Lawsuit Over Worker Safety at Smithfield’s Missouri Pork Plant Dismissed May 7, 2020 By Daniel Wiessner A U.S. federal judge has dismissed a worker advocacy group’s lawsuit accusing Smithfield Foods Inc., the world’s largest pork processor,...
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...
Suit Filed Against Smithfield Over Working Conditions at Missouri Plant April 27, 2020 A lawsuit filed on behalf of workers at a Smithfield Food plant in Missouri claims conditions at the plant are...