Meatpacking plants have proven to be one of rural America’s worst vectors for spreading COVID-19.... (more)
Dan NosowitzThe Department of Labor has finalized new rules that advocates say will limit farmworkers’ hourly... (more)
Lindsay CampbellThere are many ways in which agricultural labor—despite being difficult, dangerous, and necessary—is treated differently... (more)
Dan NosowitzThe federal labor department’s Occupation Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) announced it will fine Smithfield... (more)
Lindsay CampbellOn Monday, California Governor Gavin Newsom called the Central Valley “our biggest area of concern.”... (more)
Dan NosowitzIn late June, prominent senators (and former presidential candidates) Elizabeth Warren and Cory Booker opened... (more)
Dan NosowitzIt isn’t just meatpacking plants that have been hotspots for COVID-19 to spread within the... (more)
Dan NosowitzMeatpacking plants have become a focus of the fight against COVID-19. Working in one of... (more)
Dan NosowitzYou might assume that those workers designated as “essential” during the COVID-19 pandemic would be... (more)
Dan NosowitzMeatpacking plants have been declared essential, but they’ve also proven to be disastrously fertile contagion... (more)
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