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Sunday, April 02, 2023
A sanitation company tasked with cleaning meatpacking plants for Cargill, JBS, Tyson Foods and five other companies has agreed to pay $1.5 million in penalties for employing at least 102 children in hazardous jobs, the Labor Department says.
The White House says Gina McCarthy will depart her position as national climate adviser Sept. 16., and will be replaced in that role as well as chair of the Biden administration’s National Climate Task Force by Ali Zaidi, her current deputy.
The Department of Agriculture has announced the members of California's state Farm Service Agency Committee as well as new members of its Washington-based White House liaison and faith-based initiatives offices.
USDA has added new officials to its White House liaison and faith-based initiatives offices, and Tyson Foods is looking for a new international group president.
Illinois Democrat Cheri Bustos is hitting the road next week for a listening session that she says is going to be important as lawmakers gear up for the next farm bill.
Major food distributor SYSCO is the latest company to sue the nation's four dominant beef companies, alleging they conspired to limit supplies and fix the prices of beef sold to the company.
Meatpacking companies coordinated extensively with USDA officials and others in the Trump administration to keep their plants running in 2020 despite the growing risk of coronavirus to their workers, according to a congressional report that is based on internal industry documents.
Leaders of the nation’s largest beef packers denied accusations Wednesday that they had any agreement in place to suppress prices or competition for beef cattle throughout the country.
One of the nation’s largest meatpackers and the union representing about 26,000 of its employees say a COVID-19 vaccine mandate has led to almost all of its workers being inoculated against the virus.
