In These Times
04-28-2017, 12:49 PM
A consumer pressure campaign against labor abuses in the chicken-processing industry has produced some initial results, with a detailed pledge this week from Tyson Foods to build a better workplace for its 95,000 employees.
The campaign, led by the famed hunger-fighting group Oxfam America, is challenging Tyson and three other large chicken producers to improve on their collective record of chronic worker safety problems, poverty-level wages and anti-union attitudes. It was launched in late 2015 (http://inthesetimes.com/working/entry/18553/chicken_workers_working_conditions_oxfam_campaign) with the help of a coalition of like-minded groups, including the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) union. Tyson’s pledge is the campaign’s first visible success.
More... (http://inthesetimes.com/working/entry/20088/food_workers_take_on_fowl_play_at_tysonand_win_better_conditions/)
The campaign, led by the famed hunger-fighting group Oxfam America, is challenging Tyson and three other large chicken producers to improve on their collective record of chronic worker safety problems, poverty-level wages and anti-union attitudes. It was launched in late 2015 (http://inthesetimes.com/working/entry/18553/chicken_workers_working_conditions_oxfam_campaign) with the help of a coalition of like-minded groups, including the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) union. Tyson’s pledge is the campaign’s first visible success.
More... (http://inthesetimes.com/working/entry/20088/food_workers_take_on_fowl_play_at_tysonand_win_better_conditions/)