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Not everyone likes the dual listing plan for JBS

By Dan Flynn on September 21, 2023

Since Brazil’s JBS in 2007 acquired assets of Swift & Company in North America, there’s been anticipation that it would eventually tap equity markets in the United States. Some expected it to spin off North…

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Labor Department nabs another child labor violator

By Dan Flynn on July 7, 2023

Child labor violations of employing minors have cost a Minnesota meat plant $30,000 in fines imposed by the U.S. Department of Labor. It is the latest in fines for the meat industry paid for its…

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UFCW offers union contracts to help PSSI assist in the cleanup of the child labor scandal

By Dan Flynn on June 26, 2023

Blackstone private equity funds own Packer Sanitation Services Inc. (PSSI), which earlier this year was found violating child labor laws at 13 meat processing plants in eight states.

In some instances, child labor was employed…

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Viersen, Germany - May 9. 2020: Closeup of mobile phone on plate and wood table, cutlery with logo lettering of Jose batista sobrinho JBS food company (focus on center)

Letter from the Editor: Taking it to the cleaners

By Dan Flynn on May 6, 2023

— OPINION —

Everybody should be familiar with the story so far.

U.S. Department of Labor investigators in late 2022 and in early 2023, found more than 100 minor children doing mostly overnight work in…

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JBS to appeal Brazilian Carne Fraca fine

By Joe Whitworth on February 22, 2023

JBS is to appeal a decision by Brazilian authorities to fine one of its subsidiaries as part of Operation Carne Fraca.

The Controladoria-Geral da União (CGU) verdict relating to Seara Alimentos was officially published this…

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Paid fines indicate meat industry’s use of child labor is more widespread than previously known

By Dan Flynn on February 20, 2023

If Homeland Security is investigating the meat industry for human trafficking as was reported, it could be a long time before anything specific about that is known. But the Labor Department has now imposed monetary…

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Child labor case attracts Homeland’s attention for potential human trafficking

By Dan Flynn on January 24, 2023

When federal Judge John M. Gerrard put his signature on a six-page Consent Order and Judgment on Dec. 6, 2022, it was a win for the U.S. Department of Labor in a child labor case…

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Nebraska’s child labor case is settled without involving JBS beef plant

By Dan Flynn on December 15, 2022

The JBS Beef Plant in Grand Island, NE, the end-user in an apparent child labor scheme, is not being touched by the civil enforcement action. The labor contractor JBS was using, however, is named by…

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Temporary Restraining Order extended in child labor case involving large meat company

By Dan Flynn on November 24, 2022

A preliminary injunction that prevents a labor contracting firm from providing child labor to JBS in Grand Island, NE, has been extended to Dec. 7. The preliminary injunction is against Wisconsin-based Packers Sanitation Services Inc.

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Ukrainian arrested, charged with ransomware attack

By News Desk on November 10, 2021

Federal law enforcement may be catching up with ransomware threats.  The progress comes after costly threats to food and energy companies like meat producer JBS and the Colonial Pipeline

The Justice Department Monday announced recent…
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