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Article

25 Jan 2005

Author:
Human Rights Watch

Abuses Against Workers Taint U.S. Meat and Poultry

In meat and poultry plants across the United States, Human Rights Watch found that many workers face a real danger of losing a limb, or even their lives, in unsafe work conditions...companies frequently deny workers’ compensation to employees injured on the job, intimidate and fire workers who try to organize, and exploit workers’ immigrant status in order to keep them quiet about abuses.