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Rantoul Foods operates a pork processing plant in Rantoul, Illinois, and is one of the largest meat processing plants in central Illinois. [96] The plant's first case of COVID-19 was reported on April 25, 2020. Two days later, health inspectors visited the plant and found that it was not following appropriate infection control measures. [96]
Chicken prices are down. That’s good news for chicken eaters, but bad news for Tyson Foods.
Meat-packing giant Smithfield Foods said Friday it will close its only California plant next year, citing the escalating cost of doing business in the state. The Farmer John meat-packing plant in ...
Other Tyson workers, like Ryan Coulter, 27, declined to move. After working at the North Little Rock, Arkansas, plant that closed in early October, in roles that included assessing meat ...
Its plants slaughter approximately 155,000 cattle, 461,000 pigs, and 45,000,000 chickens every week. [14] Their largest meat packing facility is their beef production plant in Dakota City, Nebraska. Other plants include feed mills, hatcheries, farms and tanneries. [citation needed]
Employers strongly resisted attempts workers made to unionize in relocated or reopened plants; the recent history of plant closures gave employer threats significant credibility. [2] A Human Rights Watch report on conditions of meat and poultry plants asserted that "as the twentieth century turned into the twenty-first, the meatpacking industry ...
Tyson Foods Inc. is closing four chicken processing plants as it looks to lower costs. The company said Monday that the plants being closed are located in North Little Rock, Arkansas; Corydon ...
The plant made pork, beef and chicken burritos and tacos, and employed about 700 workers. [63] On April 24, Hormel announced the closure of two plants in Willmar, Minnesota, after 14 workers tested positive for coronavirus. These Jennie-O turkey plants employed over 1,200 workers. [64]