Worker Justice
Law360: Colo. Farms Say State’s Labor Rights Law Is Unconstitutional
A group of Colorado farms and ranches challenged a bid to dismiss their suit in federal court over an access provision in the state’s agricultural workers’ rights law, arguing the…
Essential Services for Colorado’s Farmworkers
Everyone should be able to work with dignity and access resources that better their working conditions and lives. However, agribusiness interests have threatened Colorado farmworkers’ right to access essential services…
Civil Eats: Biogas Expansion May Compound Worker Risks
Bob Baenziger, Jr. had made many dives in dangerous conditions over the course of his career. He was trained in the U.S. Army and had long worked diving on offshore…
Colorado Worker Group Intervenes to Oppose Constitutional Challenge to State’s Workers’ Rights Statute
Colorado Worker Group Intervenes to Oppose Constitutional Challenge to State’s Workers’ Rights Statute On Monday, November 7, Colorado Legal Services and an anonymous farmworker filed a motion to intervene in…
Bloomberg Law: Appeals Court to Decide if Federal Judges Can Order OSHA to Act
A case over OSHA’s failure to cite a Pennsylvania-based meat processing plant for alleged Covid-19 health and safety violations is testing how far workers can go to address imminent dangers…
Supermarket Perimiter: District of Columbia judge denies Smithfield lawsuit dismissal
A superior court judge in the District of Columbia denied Smithfield Food Inc.’s motion to dismiss a lawsuit that alleges the meat producer misrepresented to consumers that a US meat shortage was…
Meat + Poultry: Smithfield denied dismissal of environmental group’s lawsuit
A superior court judge in the District of Columbia denied Smithfield Food Inc.’s motion to dismiss a lawsuit that alleges the meat producer misrepresented to consumers that a US meat shortage was…
Progressive Farmer: Smithfield COVID Claims Case Continues
A lawsuit that alleges Smithfield Foods Inc. misled consumers about the state of the meat supply chain and packing plant worker safety during COVID-19 will continue, as a superior court…
Lawsuit Against Smithfield for Lying to Public Will Move Forward
Judge denies pork giant’s motion to dismiss case Smithfield Foods lost its bid to dismiss a case alleging that the meatpacking giant repeatedly lied to consumers throughout the COVID-19 pandemic…