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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]
In 1947 they were second to Chicago in the world. Omaha overtook Chicago as the nation's largest livestock market and meat packing industry center in 1955, a title which it held onto until 1971. [3] The 116-year-old institution closed in 1999. [4] The Livestock Exchange Building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999. [5]
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 ...
U.S. farm industry groups want President-elect Donald Trump to spare their sector from his promise of mass deportations, which could upend a food supply chain heavily dependent on immigrants in ...
With reform administrations in the 1930s and 1940s, the city became a meatpacking powerhouse. Several regional beer breweries developed, including Metz, Storz and Krug companies. The city's southern suburb became home to the Strategic Air Command in the late 1940s; in 1950 the Rosenblatt Stadium in South Omaha became home to the College World ...
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There was a 37% rise in child labor law breaches across the U.S. during the fiscal year 2022, with at least 688 children working in hazardous situations. [4] Based on the Federal labor law, children under 18 are not permitted to work in meatpacking factories, and children are not permitted to work after 9 p.m. during the summer and 7 p.m. during the school year. [5]
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]