Smithfield Foods’ pork processing plant is set to reopen today in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. With 250 workers planning to return to just two departments—seasoned ground pork and night cleanup— the ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The union at a Smithfield Foods meat processing plant in South Dakota, ...

A recent bill authored by Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) and Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Cal.) seeks to address the enormous power gap in the meat sector and make processing plants safer for workers. The bill has ...

The country’s poultry and swine processing plants, already incredibly dangerous workplaces, are poised to get a green light from the Trump administration to vastly speed up the work. In February, the ...

Days after President Donald Trump signed an executive order aimed at keeping meat-processing facilities open amid the coronavirus pandemic, plants across the country are scrambling to balance worker ...

When several large pork processing plants shuttered last spring because workers got sick with Covid-19, it sent many who raise livestock into a panic. “Farmers would call me and say: ‘My pigs are too ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order under the Defense Production Act to compel meat processing plants to remain open amid the coronavirus pandemic. Trump had highlighted the order during ...