Worker Justice
The FERN: DOJ: Tyson was not directed by federal government to continue pandemic production
The federal government never instructed Tyson Foods to keep its plants open during the early months of the pandemic, according to the Department of Justice in a recent filing in…
Law360: 8th Circ. Tyson Case Could Streamline COVID-19 Suits
A jurisdictional issue to be decided by the Eighth Circuit in a suit alleging Tyson Foods Inc. mishandled a COVID-19 outbreak at an Iowa plant could set a legal precedent…
A Full Month After Emergency Temporary Standard Deadline, Public Justice Urges the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to Protect Workers from COVID-19 by Issuing an ETS
More than a year into the pandemic, workers are still dying from COVID-19. Yet the Occupational Safety and Health Administration refuses to protect workers from the virus.
Buljic v. Tyson Foods, Inc.
FarmSTAND (formerly the Food Project at Public Justice) filed an amicus brief in support of meatpacking workers who died from contracting COVID-19 at a Tyson slaughterhouse in Waterloo, Iowa (Buljic…
The National Law Review: Court Won’t Step in For OSHA in Pandemic-Plagued Meat Packing Plant
On March 30, the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania dismissed the complaint a group of meat packing plant workers filed last summer against then Secretary of…
Law Street Media: Court Dismisses COVID-19 Lawsuit Against OSHA Regarding Meatpacking Plant
On Tuesday, the Middle District of Pennsylvania dismissed a lawsuit against the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and the Department of Labor (DOL), alleging that the governmental bodies should have done…
Law360: OSHA Escapes Pa. Meatpackers’ COVID-19 Protocols Suit
A Pennsylvania federal judge on Tuesday granted the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s bid to ax a suit filed by meat processing plant workers who claimed that the agency failed…
Comment from Worker and Legal Team: Judge Grants OSHA Motion to Dismiss in Maid-Rite Worker Suit
Link to ruling: Maid-Rite-Dkt-59-Memorandum-Granting-Motion-to-Dismiss-Motion-to-Strike.pdf (publicjustice.net) Statement from Jane Doe II, a plaintiff in the lawsuit: “It is bad enough to be treated as inhuman by your employer during a pandemic…
The Kansas City Star: Pandemic and Trump-era neglect overwhelm federal agency tasked with worker safety
When Smithfield was sued over conditions at their plant, the company argued the job of policing workplace safety complaints belonged to the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration, or OSHA,…