Maid-Rite Specialty Foods Expands Dunmore, Pennsylvania, Operations areadevelopment.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from areadevelopment.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
A ready-to-heat meals was awared nearly half a million dollarsToday, Governor Josh Shapiro announced that Maid-Rite Specialty Foods, Inc., a manufacturer of re
Meatpacking Workers Claim OSHA Should Do More to Protect Them During the COVID-19 Pandemic
December 10, 2020
Friends of Farmworkers, also known as Justice at Work, and additional unnamed plaintiffs claimed in a response filed on Tuesday in the Pennsylvania Middle District that the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is “unwilling to take action” to protect the workers from the dangers of not taking proper precautions during the COVID-19 pandemic.
They claimed that the conditions at Maid-Rite Specialty Foods, a Scranton, Pennsylvania meatpacking plant, were creating a health hazard and that OSHA and the Department of Labor should issue a citation. The plaintiffs said that “this court’s intervention to require OSHA to protect these workers from the risk of COVID-19 remains essential.”