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December 16, 2025 In Press Release

Beef Giant JBS Subjected Haitian Workers to Discriminatory Conditions at Greeley Plant, Workers Allege in New Lawsuit

A lawsuit filed today against JBS accuses the leading global meat processing company of exploiting over 1,000 Haitian workers recruited under false pretenses for its Greeley, Colorado plant....

December 16, 2025 In Cases

Fighting Anti-Haitian Discrimination at JBS (Pierre v. JBS USA)

JBS, the largest meat company in the world, exploited over 1,000 Haitian workers recruited under false pretenses for its Greeley, Colorado plant to boost corporate profits. Starting in late 2023, JBS began recruiting Haitians via TikTok, promising employment without English language requirements and free housing...

December 16, 2025 In Resource Materials

Complaint (Pierre v JBS)

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Read More Case: Fighting Anti-Haitian Discrimination at JBS (Pierre v. JBS USA)

December 10, 2025 In Press Release

Servicios Legales de Colorado demanda a una granja del sur de Colorado por interferir con el acceso de trabajadores agrícolas a servicios

Servicios Legales de Colorado (CLS) presentó hoy una demanda contra una granja ubicada en Center, Colorado, y contra su contratista de mano de obra agrícola, por obstruir de manera ilegal las visitas de CLS a los trabajadores que viven en el campamento laboral de la...

December 10, 2025 In Cases

Enforcing Farm Workers’ Right to Visitors (Colorado Legal Services v. Southern Colorado Farms)

Colorado’s landmark 2021 Farm Worker Bill of Rights enshrined the right of agricultural workers to receive visitors at their housing, including employer-owned housing. This includes visitors like lawyers from Colorado Legal Services (CLS), Colorado’s statewide nonprofit legal aid program, who routinely attempt to visit with...

December 10, 2025 In Resource Materials

Complaint (CLS v. Southern CO Farms)

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December 10, 2025 In Press Release

Colorado Legal Services Sues Southern Colorado Farm for Interfering with Farm Workers’ Access to Services

Colorado Legal Services this week filed a lawsuit against a Center, CO farm and its farm labor contractor over illegal obstruction of CLS’s visits to workers staying at the farm’s labor camp. The suit seeks to uphold CLS’s right to visit workers at the camp...

September 2, 2025 In News

Colorado Public Radio: Dairy Worker Families Call for Reforms and Recognition After Tragic Accident Kills Six

“These are not ‘Old McDonald’s Farm’ with sort of a small scale and small risks. These are large industrial facilities,” said Kelsey Eberly, an attorney at FarmSTAND, a national organization that advocates for better environmental practices and worker protections in the U.S. food system. “These...

February 26, 2025 In News

The Denver Post: Colorado lawmakers consider repealing key farmworker protections in light of Supreme Court ruling

Despite this denial, farmers are now bringing “unfounded and legally incorrect claims to the legislature when really they belong in court,” said Kelsey Eberly, a senior staff attorney at FarmSTAND, a legal advocacy organization litigating this issue. “This bill is legislator overreach, circumventing an ongoing...

October 15, 2024 In Press Release

Towards Justice, Haitian Workers File Charges Against Greeley Meatpacking Plant

On Friday, a Haitian worker at the JBS meatpacking plant in Greeley, CO filed charges with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleging that JBS is forcing hundreds of Haitian workers to work at dangerous speeds and limiting their access to the bathroom. Towards Justice, King...