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[Opinion] Trump administration moves increase line speed limits for meat processors — and other labor news

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Workers in a pork processing plant, 2016. Photo courtesy of U.S. General Accountability Office. Take a seat in the Break Room, our weekly roundup of labor news in Minnesota and beyond. This week: USDA allows higher line speeds at meat processing plants; illegally fired federal workers get called back with more layoffs looming; 630 mine workers laid off on Iron Range; and 120 nursing home workers plan to strike next week.  USDA allows higher line…

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Trump administration moves increase line speed limits for meat processors — and other labor news

Workers in a pork processing plant, 2016. Photo courtesy of U.S. General Accountability Office. Take a seat in the Break Room, our weekly roundup of labor news in Minnesota and beyond. This week: USDA allows higher line speeds at meat processing plants; illegally fired federal workers get called back with more layoffs looming; 630 mine workers laid off on Iron Range; and 120 nursing home workers plan to strike next week.  USDA allows higher line…

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USDA to allow increased pork and poultry processor line speeds

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins announced new actions to reduce burdens on the U.S. pork and poultry industries, allowing for greater efficiency while maintaining food safety standards. The directive instructs the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) to eliminate outdated administrative requirements that have sl...

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Unsafe at any speed — again: The meat industry’s looming crisis

— OPINION — Thirty years ago, I wrote a New York Times op-ed titled “Tragedy Wasn’t Enough”, in the wake of the 1993 Jack in the Box E. coli outbreak that killed four children —including my own son. I wrote that piece believing — hoping — that this time, tragedy would be enough to force real change. That no other parent would have to endure what I did. That we would finally choose human safety over corporate convenience. That was three decades a…

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Trump administration: Do your own card check - NW Labor Press

FMCS will stop providing free “card check” services when employers agree to recognize a union based on signed union authorization cards. The post Trump administration: Do your own card check appeared first on NW Labor Press.

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