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( NewsNation) — JBS Foods told 200 workers at its Ottumwa, Iowa, plant that their visas are being revoked and they must leave ...
TAR HEEL, N.C. (WECT) - An employee at the Smithfield Plant in Tar Heel passed away after a medical emergency, according to Ray Atkinson, a spokesperson with Smithfield Foods. Atkinson told WECT that ...
TAR HEEL, N.C. (WECT) - An employee at the Smithfield Plant in Tar Heel passed away after a medical emergency, according to Ray Atkinson, a spokesperson with Smithfield Foods. Atkinson told WECT ...
A country ham packing plant in Elon, N.C., will close late in the summer, affecting about 160 employees. A pork and smoked meats plant in Great Bend, Kan., will close in July, affecting 275 employees.
Star Tribune reports the St. James Smithfield plant has been fined $2 million for allegedly illegally employing minors between the ages of 14 and 17 in evening and overnight shifts where they ...
Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — One of the nation’s largest meat processors has agreed to pay $2 million to resolve allegations of child labor violations at a plant in Minnesota.
A meatpacking plant in southwestern Minnesota must pay a $2 million fine over child labor violations uncovered during a probe by the state's Department of Labor and Industry.
RALEIGH --Workers at the world's largest pork slaughterhouse in rural North Carolina have agreed on a four-year contract with a Smithfield Foods subsidiary. Workers at the Smithfield Packing plant ...
The Smithfield, Virginia-based company said in a statement that it denies knowingly hiring anyone under age 18 to work at the St. James plant, and that it did not admit liability under the settlement.
Smithfield Packing Co. won a round in a six-year legal battle with a food workers' union over a bitterly contested 1999 unionization vote at the company's bacon plant in Wilson, ...