Poultry Plant

Poultry Bosses Benefit From Trump’s Threats

December 12, 2024 Magaly Licolli, Labor Notes. Educate! Donald Trump, Intimidation, Poultry Plant, Worker Rights and Jobs

Even before he takes office, the Trump victory has given more power to poultry corporations. They’re using the political environment to intimidate workers. I’ve been organizing with poultry processing workers in Arkansas for 10 years, and I see a high risk that the (already awful) working conditions will get worse. In some small plants, fewer than half the workers are documented. More than half are hired through a contractor who brings in undocumented people. They don’t get the same benefits, like holidays and overtime pay, and they’re paid less while enduring the same risks.

Poultry And Prisons: Toward A General Strike For Abolition

July 24, 2020 Carrie Freshour, Black Agenda Report. Organize! Poultry Plant, Prison abolition, Prisoner rights, Worker Rights

On April 28, 2020, Donald Trump utilized the Defense Production Act to keep meat-processing plants open. As of this writing, twenty-two plants have closed, if only temporarily, after large numbers of workers tested positive for COVID-19.1 Yet, the number of worker deaths across the industry, including four workers at a Tyson chicken-processing plant in Camilla, Georgia, continues to rise.2 Black workers, who make up a majority of the Tyson plant’s workforce, live in neighboring Dougherty county. This county was once central to the cotton-producing region of the Black Belt, constructed through the violence of plantation slavery entwined with the productivity of the soil.

Video Captures Poor Conditions At Plant Where Prisoners Are Sent To Work

May 29, 2020 Jerry Iannelli, The Appeal. Resist! COVID-19, Poultry Plant, Prisoner rights, Worker Rights and Jobs

Kia Jones says her brother would stop working at Louisiana’s meatpacking facilities if he could. Earlier this month, Jones’s brother sent her a video from the poultry plant where he’s working—and she says she was horrified at what she saw. The clip, which Jones shared with The Appeal, shows workers at the DG Foods poultry plant in Bastrop, a small town of about 10,000 people in Morehouse Parish, using a dirty bathroom with standing water on the floor, soap missing from dispensers, and seats ripped from toilets and thrown onto the floor. But Jones’s brother—who she asked to not be named out of fear that prison guards would retaliate against him—can’t quit. He’s imprisoned at the Ouachita Parish sheriff’s office Transitional Work Program facility in Monroe; every day, Jones says, her brother is bused about 25 miles north to the DG Foods facility, where he works an eight-hour shift alongside members of the public.

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