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 penalties totaling $1.5 million on a labor contractor who placed more than 100 children into
Continue Reading Paid fines indicate meat industry’s use of child labor is more widespread than previously known
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 against Packers Sanitation Services.
But as it turned out, that child labor case has apparently
Continue Reading Child labor case attracts Homeland’s attention for potential human trafficking
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 a Consent Order and Judgment signed by federal Judge John M. Gerrard.
For the labor
Continue Reading Nebraska’s child labor case is settled without involving JBS beef plant
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. Ltd.
Secretary of Labor Martin J. Walsh on Nov. 9, 2022, sued Packers Sanitation alleging
Continue Reading Temporary Restraining Order extended in child labor case involving large meat company
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 actions taken against two foreign nationals charged with deploying Sodinokibi/REvil ransomware to attack businesses and
Continue Reading Ukrainian arrested, charged with ransomware attack
JBS USA Food Co. a Greeley, CO, firm and Importer of Record, is recalling 4,860 pounds of imported boneless beef products that may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7, according to the the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS).
The problem was discovered when FSIS collected
Continue Reading Government tests show E. coli in frozen beef; JBS launches recall
JBS Food Canada has recalled its Provigo brand ground beef products from the market because of possible E. coli O157 contamination. The recall warns the public against consuming theses recalled products:
Continue Reading JBS Food Canada recalls its Provigo ground beef over E. coli contamination
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited a second large meat production company for failing to protect employees from exposure to the coronavirus.
Nearly 300 JBS employees in Greeley, CO, were infected with the COVID-19 virus since March and seven died. Six worked in
Continue Reading OSHA fines JBS beef plant in Colorado for failing to protect employees from virus
By Brendan Fischer and Maggie Christ
Despite what you might think, America’s broken campaign finance system is about more than expensive ads flooding your screen and glossy mailers clogging your mailbox. The outsized role of money in politics has a real-world impact, with elected officials too often prioritizing
Continue Reading Senator’s Call for Meat Industry’s Answers Exposes Reach of Money in Politics
Even though agriculture is the basis of civilization as we know it now, it is for the most part separate from most of us. We all eat, but how the food actually gets to the stores and restaurants is not something we think about. It’s there; we buy it; we
Continue Reading Farmworkers’ input on food safety now turns to coronavirus safety
