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Unions Cite High Court Ruling To Aid Safety Suit Over Line-Speed Rule


July 10, 2020 at 02:34 PM
Labor unions say the Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) rule allowing swine slaughterhouses to raise line-speed limits regardless of worker safety impacts must be vacated, citing a recent Supreme Court decision they say shows that the agency’s refusal to consider safety data in the rulemaking is too fundamental a flaw to fix on remand.

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