Our legislature has hoghoused—i.e., “amended extensively“—just two bills so far. But Senator Reynold Nesiba (D-15/Sioux Falls) is proposing an honest-to-goodness hoghouse bill to make work…
Tag: Smithfield Foods
Smithfield Denies Wrongdoing But Pays Paltry OSHA Fine for Coronavirus Hazards; Workers Disappointed
In September 2020, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration fined Smithfield Foods $13,494, the maximum allowed by law, for failing to protect its Sioux Falls…
Smithfield Foods must not have gotten the memo that it’s a worker’s market. In a press release issued Friday, the United Food and Commercial Workers…
If radical right-wing death cultists can use coronavirus as an excuse to take over local government to hasten the apocalypse, then decent Americans should be…
When Smithfield Foods resisted calls from its workers, the public, and the CDC to do more to protect workers from coronavirus last year, CEO Kenneth…
Meatpacking workers have risked their lives during the coronavirus pandemic to keep bacon and wienies in our fridges. They deserve rewards for that hard labor.…
Ah, union power—after flexing its muscle with a 99% vote in favor of a strike, UFCW Local 304a got Smithfield to agree to raise the…
The United Food and Commercial Workers Local 304A voted last night to authorize a strike against Smithfield Foods if the company doesn’t come its way in…
Pramod Acharya of the Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting reads the CDC’s August report on the early coronavirus outbreak at Smithfield Foods and finds that…