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Thursday, June 08, 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.
A federal judge has sentenced two farm labor contractors to time in prison and another to eight months of home detention for their roles in a federal racketeering conspiracy that victimized more than a dozen Mexican H-2A workers.
The nation’s largest railroads, aided by low summer demand and intense recruiting initiatives, have made progress in shrinking the formidable freight backlogs that congested their lines this spring. But 62,000 engineers and conductors could once again throw the rail system into disarray if they go on strike Friday.
A contract dispute between the nation's largest railroads and 115,000 of their workers is nearing escalation to a strike that could idle more than 7,000 trains, potentially halting the movement of grain during the harvest season.
The four largest U.S. railroads are optimistic about their plans to recruit more workers headed into the fall harvest, but Surface Transportation Board Chairman Martin Oberman has expressed concern about how ready the railroads are.
Tyson Foods, one of the country’s largest meat companies, is reporting net earnings per share of $2.87 for the latest quarter, up 48% for the same period a year earlier.
California sheep ranchers have filed a complaint against the state for including their workers in the agriculture overtime law that took effect for smaller employers this month.
Technology that automates weeding, harvesting or other farm work is not taking jobs away from humans. Rather, it’s helping bridge the gap between work that needs to be done and a labor force that isn’t sufficient, a panel of ag technology leaders said during the Agri-Pulse Summit in Sacramento Monday.
High demand for farm equipment and issues in the supply chain mean that orders for new machinery from a number of companies are taking months to fill and prices for used equipment have gone up.
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