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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]
Iowa Beef Processors, Inc., later became IBP, Inc. Occidental Petroleum owned IBP from 1981 to 1987, and was the majority owner from 1987 to 1991. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ a ] IBP was acquired by Tyson Foods in 2001 for US$ 3.2 billion in cash and stock . [ 8 ]
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]
Smithfield Foods, one of the nation’s largest meat processors, has agreed to pay $2 million to resolve allegations of child labor violations at a plant in Minnesota, officials announced Thursday.
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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. In 1957, it was estimated that the industries related to the stockyards employed fully one-half of Omaha workers.
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