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Unions File Worker Safety Suit Over USDA Poultry Line-Speed Program


July 30, 2020 at 06:18 PM
Labor unions and the group Public Citizen are asking a federal district court to scrap the Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) program that allows poultry slaughterhouses to raise their line speeds above regulatory maximums, saying it violates a 2014 rule for the sector that the Trump administration never withdrew or amended.

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