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12 Jun 2022, 9:06 pm by News Desk
Smithfield has 40,000 American jobs at 45 facilities with nearly 500 company-owned farms, including 17 in California. [read post]
26 Jan 2007, 2:07 pm
An immigration raid at a huge North Carolina pork-packing plant provoked protests yesterday from union officials, who said the company, Smithfield Foods, had collaborated with the authorities searching for undocumented immigrants to discourage its workers from organizing. [read post]
14 Sep 2020, 9:05 pm by Dan Flynn
Both Smithfield and JBS are appealing those fines, which local chapters of the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) believe are low enough that they might lead to bad behavior by the companies. [read post]
4 Mar 2015, 10:02 pm by Dan Flynn
The rest are already under contract or owned by the company doing the slaughter. [read post]
21 Feb 2008, 8:33 am
At Smithfield Packing, the world's largest hog processing plant in Tar Heel, North Carolina, injuries this severe are not terribly uncommon. [read post]
15 Oct 2010, 7:42 am
Mirroring a major victory for North Carolina worker rights in 2008 with the unionization of the Smithfield Tar Heel pork processing plant, the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 1776 has rung in another win for 1,200 workers at a Souderton, Penn. beef packing plant. [read post]
7 May 2007, 10:12 am
  The Antitrust Division issued a second request to investigate concerns that the merged company would be able to increase the price consumers paid for pork products, while simultaneously decreasing the price paid to pork farmers for pigs sold to packing plants. [read post]
26 Feb 2024, 9:02 pm by Dan Flynn
Also, they announced in 2008 its intention to buy National Beef Packing Company for $560 million. [read post]
12 Dec 2009, 1:59 am
According to Meatingplace, Tyson Foods' in Nebraska and Sioux-Preme Packing Company in Iowa have also been blocked by Russian officials. [read post]
10 May 2011, 9:00 am by Lucas A. Ferrara, Esq.
North Carolina Firm Recalls Portobello Mushroom Flavored Pork Loins Due to Mislabeling and an Undeclared Allergen Smithfield Packing Company of Clinton, NC and Tar Heel, NC is recalling approximately 216,238 pounds of Portobello Mushroom flavored pork loins because some of the product may contain an undeclared allergen. [read post]
21 Apr 2020, 6:05 pm by Joseph Stacey
The spread of COVID-19 in the South Dakota Smithfield Foods pork plant has been linked to over 640 cases of the virus, and 51 cases at the Tyson Foods meat-packing plant in Pasco, Washington. [read post]
21 Jun 2010, 2:59 am
The company is also to pay $2 million in fines--$1.9 million in civil penalties and $100,000 in damages.The facility at the center of the dispute, formerly Moyer Packing Co., located in Franconia Township, PA, was charged with dumping pollutants into Skippack Creek, a tributary of the Perkiomen Creek and the Schuylkill River, over a five year period. [read post]
4 Apr 2013, 11:38 pm by Dan Flynn
Smithfield Foods Inc.: $13.09 billion, 46, 050 employees, 40 plants 5. [read post]
22 Aug 2022, 9:06 pm by Dan Flynn
FSIS took action against the EDDY Packing Company in Yoakum, TX, for a Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) violation or, in USDA-speak, a Noncompliance Record (NR). [read post]
20 Jun 2007, 10:00 pm
OSHA Inspectors Find No Violations at Tar Heel Plant State inspectors say they have found that a union's allegations about drinking water at Smithfield Packing Company's Tar Heel, N.C., plant were totally unfounded; it is clean and readily available. [read post]
29 Jun 2009, 9:21 pm
  It did last year buy the Smithfield Beef Group, including the Five Rivers Cattle feed lot operation. [read post]
4 Oct 2023, 7:27 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
As an exec at pork processor Smithfield put it, Agri Stats advice boils down to four words “Just raise your price. [read post]
18 Aug 2021, 9:04 pm by Dan Flynn
Smithfield Fresh Meats in Smithfield, VA, and Preferred Freezer in Elizabeth, NJ, were charged twice with violating regulatory controls. [read post]
24 Jan 2011, 1:59 am
One company receiving these subsidies is Smithfield Foods, the largest pork producer in the world, and the one the film highlights. [read post]
25 Dec 2019, 9:01 pm by Hannah Kass
Consider how small farmers have fared under the consolidation of the meat packing industry. [read post]