Four meat and poultry associations today filed an Amici curiae brief with the United States Supreme Court urging the court to uphold a lower court decision that permitted collective bargaining agreements (CBA) to address compensation for clothes-changing time.
As part of a lawsuit seeking to block implementation of COOL, nine organizations asked the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to grant a preliminary injunction.
Having filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy this week, Northern Beef Packers is laying off more than 250 workers, leaving only six employees at the beef plant.
The De Queen, Ark., poultry processing plant owned by Pilgrim's Pride Corp. has been cited with 11 safety violations and proposed penalties totaling $170,000.
The National Pork Board has committed to investing an additional $350,000 toward research, education and coordination of efforts to better understand Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea Virus.