meatpacking
Capital mobility can hamper decent labor protections in a few ways. As I pointed out in Out of Sight (amazingly that book came out 8 years ago, man I gotta.
There is just so, so much more child labor in this nation than most Americans realize. We are hearing about it a little more now because a Biden Department of.
Striking gets the goods. Even when you don't actually have to go on strike. No one will ever remember this moment, when the Smithfield plant in Sioux Falls barely avoided.
I recently watched the 1984 PBS production The Killing Floor, about the Great Migration and Black labor in Chicago meatpacking during World War I and leading up to the World.
I am shocked that Comrade Hawley is not leading the way to investigate why so many meatpacking workers died in the early months of the pandemic. And here I thought.
ProPublica is a gem. Their reporters continually produce perhaps the best investigative journalism in America. Today's drop is a maddening deep dive in Tyson's utter indifference to the workers dropping.
I've talked plenty about the impact of COVID-19 on food workers. Already some of the worst treated workers in America, no one cared about them until those conditions could affect.
The meat industry is bound and determined to change nothing about its horrid workplace safety practices, no matter how many workers die. It will act only at the force of.