Articles Tagged with ''Smithfield''

President-elect Joe Biden will nominate a former labor leader, Boston Mayor Marty Walsh, to become labor secretary. That’s a critical position for farmers and farmworkers because of the Labor Department’s regulation of labor standards and authority over the H-2A visa program.

Smithfield Foods has settled litigation over hog farms in North Carolina after an appeals court decision upheld a nuisance verdict against a company subsidiary.

Packing plants shuttered by the COVID-19 pandemic are mostly up and running once again, which is placing a new focus on testing and the availability of personal protective equipment to keep their doors open. 

A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit brought by a community advocacy group and a worker at Smithfield’s Milan, Mo., pork plant, finding the company has taken “significant steps … to reduce the risk of a COVID-19 outbreak at the plant.”

A major meatpacking giant posted lower-than-expected earnings Monday and said it is unsure how long the uncertain market brought about by the coronavirus will linger in its bottom line.

Meat and poultry plants should implement social distancing and “consider the appropriate role for testing and workplace contact tracing” in helping to control COVID-19 at their facilities, according to new guidance issued by federal agencies.

In this opinion piece, Rep. Dusty Johnson, R-S.D., discusses how the food supply system has been impacted by the coronavirus pandemic, but more importantly, how farmers and ranchers have been impacted.

Thirteen members of the United Food and Commercial Workers International union who work in meatpacking or food processing have died after contracting COVID-19, UFCW said on a media call today to press for personal protective equipment and testing.

The novel coronavirus is living up to its name, ushering in a new way of life for America’s food companies, most notably the meat industry.

A major pork processing plant is coming offline after almost 300 of its workers have tested positive for COVID-19, leaving many in the industry bracing for potential shockwaves yet to come.