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[1] In 1998, the Immigration and Naturalization Service estimated that about a quarter of meatpacking workers in Nebraska and Iowa were illegal immigrants. [3] The USDA published similar numbers, estimating the percentage of Hispanic meat-processing workers rising from less than 10% in 1980 to almost 30% in 2000. [7]
By 1892, the packing plants employed 5,000 people in "Packingtown." In 1897 Armour’s South Omaha plant was the nation’s largest. By 1934, the "Big Four" were Armour, Cudahy, Swift and Wilson. The meat packing industry of South Omaha was closely related to the Stockyards. South Omaha relied solely on both of those industries for its growth ...
Danner worked as a butcher in South Omaha [5] for Swift & Co. [4] He was a field representative and a vice president of the United Packinghouse Workers of America, Local 47, which represented laborers in the meat packing industry. [6] Danner was a Nebraska state senator beginning in 1963, representing North Omaha. [6] He was the only African ...
The UFCW union, which represents roughly 80% of the nation’s beef and pork workers and 33 percent of its poultry workers, estimates that at least 132 meatpacking workers died of COVID-19 and at ...
More than 1,800 workers at meat industry giants, including Tyson, Smithfield Foods, and JBS have been sickened with COVID-19. A worker filed a lawsuit against Smithfield on Thursday alleging ...
In 1950, the UPWA created an Anti-Discrimination Department, dedicated to ending racial discrimination in meat packing plants and working against segregation in local communities. [9] The three goals of this department were: to break down all-white plants, to end discriminatory practice in communities, and to facilitate work with other civil ...
Tyson Fresh Meats has settled lawsuits with the estates of three workers at its Storm Lake pork plant who died of COVID-19 contracted in 2020 while the facility continued operating during the ...
A group of 18 workers filed a class action suit against Swift for hiring illegal workers in an effort to depress wages. The suit was dismissed in 2009 on the grounds that, because legal and illegal workers could not be clearly separated in retrospect, the relevant class could not be ascertained.