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In Victory For Unions, District Judge Vacates Pork Line-Speed Waivers


April 1, 2021 at 06:21 PM
A federal district judge has scrapped the Trump Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) line-speed waiver for some pork slaughterhouses over its refusal to consider threats to worker safety during the rulemaking process -- a win for unions that said the policy was unlawful -- and is giving the Biden administration 90 days to decide its next steps.

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