Heather Schlitz, Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting

Empleados de la industria cárnica aseguran que la política de asistencia los obliga a trabajar con posibles síntomas de Covid-19

En abril, a pesar de su fiebre, un trabajador de la industria de las empacadoras de carne continuó extrayendo los huesos del cuello de los cerdos en una planta de la compañía JBS en Iowa. Dos semanas después, dio positivo a Covid-19. Pero mientras tanto, dijo, siguió marcando su entrada debido a un

By Heather Schlitz, Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting

/ 23 Oct 2020

Empleados de la industria cárnica aseguran que la política de asistencia los obliga a trabajar con posibles síntomas de Covid-19

Meatpacking workers say attendance policy forces them to work with potential Covid-19 symptoms

In April, despite his fever, a meatpacking worker continued to carve neck bones out of pig carcasses at a JBS plant in Iowa. Two weeks later, he would test positive for COVID-19. But in the meantime, he said, he kept clocking in because of a punitive attendance system widely used in meatpacking pla

By Heather Schlitz, Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting

/ 20 Oct 2020

Meatpacking workers say attendance policy forces them to work with potential Covid-19 symptoms

Plantas avícolas de Arkansas luchan contra el Covid-19. Los trabajadores hispanos enfrentan lo peor.

Un día de junio, el teléfono de María Romero sonó, al contestar escuchó la aterradora respiración entrecortada de su madre. La trabajadora de la planta avícola de Arkansas, de 59 años, con un susurro débil le dijo a su hija que había sido llevada de urgencia a la sala de emergencias, donde le diagno

By Heather Schlitz, Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting

/ 30 Sep 2020

Arkansas poultry plants are struggling with COVID-19. Hispanic workers are facing the worst of it.

Maria Romero’s mother is among at least 4,627 Arkansas poultry workers to have been infected by COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic. More than half of them, like Romero’s mother, are Hispanic.

By Heather Schlitz, Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting

/ 31 Aug 2020

Arkansas poultry plants are struggling with COVID-19. Hispanic workers are facing the worst of it.

USDA report: Beef prices spike after pandemic declared

After a state of emergency was declared in the U.S. on March 13, beef production, prices and spread were likely impacted by consumer stockpiling of meat and declining demand from restaurants as take-out and delivery became the only options, according to the report.

By Heather Schlitz, Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting

/ 30 Jul 2020

USDA report: Beef prices spike after pandemic declared

Pilgrim’s Pride reports second quarter loss, dropping sales

Pilgrim’s Pride Corporation, one of the largest meatpacking companies in the U.S., reported second quarter earnings due to challenges posed by COVID-19, with shares falling 4% in after-hours trading on Wednesday.

By Heather Schlitz, Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting

/ 30 Jul 2020

Pilgrim’s Pride reports second quarter loss, dropping sales

Four restaurant chains sue Tyson and Pilgrim’s Pride, saying companies fixed chicken prices

Four restaurant chains have sued the country’s biggest poultry companies, including Tyson Foods and Pilgrim’s Pride, saying they conspired to inflate prices, manipulated price indices and restrained production.

By Heather Schlitz, Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting

/ 10 Jul 2020

Four restaurant chains sue Tyson and Pilgrim’s Pride, saying companies fixed chicken prices

COVID-19 disproportionately affects minority meatpacking workers. These groups say racial discrimination is the reason.

Although they make up about 60 percent of all meatpacking workers in the U.S., people of color account for about 90 percent of those infected, according to federal data released this week. The companies did not follow the federal guidance that would have mitigated the virus’s spread among its minori

By Heather Schlitz, Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting

/ 10 Jul 2020

Heather Schlitz, Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting

Empleados de la industria cárnica aseguran que la política de asistencia los obliga a trabajar con posibles síntomas de Covid-19

Meatpacking workers say attendance policy forces them to work with potential Covid-19 symptoms

Plantas avícolas de Arkansas luchan contra el Covid-19. Los trabajadores hispanos enfrentan lo peor.

Arkansas poultry plants are struggling with COVID-19. Hispanic workers are facing the worst of it.

USDA report: Beef prices spike after pandemic declared

Pilgrim’s Pride reports second quarter loss, dropping sales

Four restaurant chains sue Tyson and Pilgrim’s Pride, saying companies fixed chicken prices

COVID-19 disproportionately affects minority meatpacking workers. These groups say racial discrimination is the reason.

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