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That year, Omaha overtook Chicago as the nation's largest livestock market and meatpacking center, a position it held until 1973. The meatpacking industry had been organized and workers could manage a blue-collar middle class life. The union was interracial and supported the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s.
According to a study in the Drake Journal of Agricultural Law, "most meatpacking employees are poor, many are immigrants struggling to survive, and most are now employed in rural locations." [1] In 1998, the Immigration and Naturalization Service estimated that about a quarter of meatpacking workers in Nebraska and Iowa were illegal immigrants. [3]
Commission on Law Enforcement And Criminal Justice 5th Floor, State Office Bldg. 301 Centennial Mall South. PO Box 94946. 68509-4946 Don Arp, Jr. Coordinating Commission For Postsecondary Education P.O. Box 95005. Lincoln, NE 68509-5005 Michael Baumgartner Dry Bean Commission 4502 Avenue I. Scottsbluff. 69361 Mitchell Stephenson
(Reuters) -Livestock farmers in the U.S. would have a clearer path to bringing antitrust complaints against meatpacking companies for unfair business practices under a rule proposed by the U.S ...
The Biden White House blames meatpacking conglomerates for driving up food costs and is aiming to drive greater competition in the industry through investment and regulation.
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The Packers and Stockyards Act of 1921 (7 U.S.C. §§ 181-229b; P&S Act) regulates meatpacking, livestock dealers, market agencies, live poultry dealers, and swine contractors to prohibit unfair or deceptive practices, giving undue preferences, apportioning supply, manipulating prices, or creating a monopoly.
The Wilson Packing Plant was a division of the Wilson and Company meatpacking company located near South 27th and Y Streets in South Omaha, Nebraska. Founded in the 1890s, it closed in 1976. [1] It occupied the area bounded by Washington Street, South 27th Street, W Street and South 30th Street.