At Least 269 Workers in US Meatpacking Industry Died in First Year of Pandemic

A House subcommittee found there were three times as many cases and deaths among these workers as previously known.

“On the Kill Floors”: Essential Workers in Meatpacking Plants Still Lack Safety & COVID Protections

Amid a surge in COVID-19 cases, we look at the experiences of meatpacking workers during the pandemic and beyond. Dulce Castañeda, a founding member of Children of Smithfield, a Nebraska-based grassroots advocacy group led by the children and...