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Union Asks USDA not to Appeal Court Decision
Tuesday Jun 1st, 2021 United Food and Commercial Workers International is asking the USDA to respect a court decision that said the previous administration unlawfully allowed packing plants to ignore limits on pork line speeds.
The court held that USDA acted unlawfully when it refused to consider the impact of eliminating line speeds on worker health and safety in its “New Swine Inspection System” issued a few months before the pandemic began to spread.
Mark Lauritsen is the national head of UFCW’s meatpacking operations. Lauritsen: “If COVID did anything it should have taught us that if the workers in meatpacking plants aren’t safe the entire food supply chain is not safe and if they re not safe in those places it jeopardizes the hog producer who will then have no place to sell their hogs. It jeopardizes the retailer who will have no product to sell. So what we want to do is work with USDA, work with all the stakeholders
Union Asks USDA not to Appeal Court Decision
Tuesday Jun 1st, 2021 United Food and Commercial Workers International is asking the USDA to respect a court decision that said the previous administration unlawfully allowed packing plants to ignore limits on pork line speeds.
The court held that USDA acted unlawfully when it refused to consider the impact of eliminating line speeds on worker health and safety in its “New Swine Inspection System” issued a few months before the pandemic began to spread.
Mark Lauritsen is the national head of UFCW’s meatpacking operations. Lauritsen: “If COVID did anything it should have taught us that if the workers in meatpacking plants aren’t safe the entire food supply chain is not safe and if they re not safe in those places it jeopardizes the hog producer who will then have no place to sell their hogs. It jeopardizes the retailer who will have no product to sell. So what we want to do is work with USDA, work with all the stakeholders