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Judge tosses Trump-era pork processing speed-up, this week in the war on workers

Leave a Comment / Agriculture, President Trump / By max cyril

Line speeds in meat processing plants are a classic example of something that’s simultaneously a worker safety issue and a consumer safety issue. And this week, both workers and consumers got a major victory when a federal judge threw out a Trump-era rule allowing pork processing plants to operate at higher speeds. According to U.S. District Judge …

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OSHA Rejects GAO Poultry Recommendations: Sees No Problem With Workers’ Restroom Access

Leave a Comment / OSHA / By max cyril

In a surprising and disappointing apparent rollback of OSHA’s enforcement policy related to poultry inspections, Acting Assistant Secretary Loren Sweatt has rejected recommendations from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) designed to address findings that poultry workers are intimidated about reporting health and safety problems to OSHA, particularly about their inability to get bathroom breaks. The GAO …

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Murray, DeLauro Call on USDA to Reject Chicken Council’s Petition to Increase Line Speeds

Leave a Comment / workplace safety / By max cyril

Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions and Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), Ranking Member of the House Labor Appropriations Committee, today sent a sharply worded letter to Carmen Rottenberg, acting head of USDA’s Food Safety Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) calling on the agency to reject a petition …

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Poultry lobbyists hope Trump will okay dangerous chicken processing speed-up Obama rejected

Leave a Comment / workplace safety / By max cyril

The poultry industry really, really wants to process the chickens you eat at rates of more than 140 per minute. Under former President Obama, the USDA considered and then backed off of an increase to 175 chickens per minute going down the line being eviscerated and inspected. Under Donald Trump, the National Chicken Council hopes that the …

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Judge tosses Trump-era pork processing speed-up, this week in the war on workers

OSHA Rejects GAO Poultry Recommendations: Sees No Problem With Workers’ Restroom Access

Murray, DeLauro Call on USDA to Reject Chicken Council’s Petition to Increase Line Speeds

Poultry lobbyists hope Trump will okay dangerous chicken processing speed-up Obama rejected

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