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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.
The Union Stock Yards Company of Omaha was a 90-year-old company first founded in South Omaha, Nebraska in 1878 by John A. Smiley. After being moved to Council Bluffs, Iowa and dissolved within a year, the company was reorganized and moved to South Omaha in 1883. [1]
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]
LINCOLN — Calling it a move to protect Nebraska’s ag industry, Gov. Jim Pillen on Tuesday announced his backing of three new legislative proposals — including one banning lab-grown meat from ...
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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 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.