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	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for meatpacking
		meatpacking or meat-processing, wholesale business of buying and slaughtering animals and then processing and distributing their carcasses to retailers.
		It is a railroad and distribution center, with oil refineries, meatpacking and dairy-processing plants, flour, lumber, and woolen mills, stockyards, and Canada's largest jet-training base.
		Meatpacking refined: '02 recall was 'life-changing' event for industry.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=meatpacking (515 words)

	TAP: Vol 13, Iss. 12. The Kill-Floor Rebellion. David Bacon. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Meatpacking unions in Omaha go back more than a hundred years, and their uneasy relationship with immigrants and workers of color is almost as old.
		The city's meatpacking industry was built at the turn of the century by immigrants from Bohemia, Poland, and Lithuania.
		In Omaha's meatpacking plants, Sosa encountered an immigrant Latino workforce consisting of both documented and undocumented workers, often in the same families, who all formed part of a broad network of relationships.
	www.prospect.org /print/V13/12/bacon-d.html (3186 words)

	Meatpacking
		By the middle of the 1800s, the city was known as "Porkopolis," due to meatpacking's importance to Cincinnati's economy.
		Although meatpacking was hard work and many people did not prosper from it, some people certainly did benefit.
		Meatpacking brought in more than 23.5 million dollars to the city's economy that year, just 3.5 million dollars behind the iron industry.
	www.ohiohistorycentral.org /entry.php?rec=1547 (630 words)

	Untitled Document
		The meatpacking industry not only has the highest injury rate, but also has by far the highest rate of serious injury—more than five times the national average, as measured in lost workdays.
		Thirty years ago, meatpacking was one of the highest-paid industrial jobs in the United States, with one of the lowest turnover rates.
		The meatpacking companies refuse to comment on the cases of individual employees like Raul Lopez, but insist they have a sincere interest in the well-being of their workers.
	www.d.umn.edu /~bmork/3945/3945meatpackingmotherjones.htm (4938 words)

	The Daily News Online
		Even the harshest critics acknowledge government regulations and inspectors have made meatpacking far cleaner and safer than it was when Sinclair described rats scurrying over piles of meat, sick workers spitting into processing vats and diseased animals stumbling to slaughter.
		Today's real-life meatpacking story is far from that fictional horror, but parts of the book's message resonate in the here and now.
		Meatpacking wages that were 15 percent above the average manufacturing salary in 1960 dropped to 20 percent below by 1990, says Don Stull, a University of Kansas anthropology professor and industry expert.
	www.tdn.com /articles/2006/04/23/nation_world/news07.txt (2242 words)

	Ergonomics Program Management Guidelines For Meatpacking Plants
		There are numerous differences between large and small employers in the meatpacking industry-in types of operations, mechanization, and the degree of specialization in employee tasks.
		OSHA, therefore, looks to employers in the meatpacking industry to demonstrate that they are meeting their general duty under the OSH Act by evaluating the extent of the CTD's and ergonomic hazards in their workplaces, and by implementing appropriate, systematic programs to resolve them.
		A: The guidelines were developed primarily with a view to the larger meatpacking employers where the greatest ergonomic problems are known to exist-and where most of the employees in the industry work.
	www.osha.gov /Publications/OSHA3123/3123.html (16382 words)

	NIOSH Finds Effective Interventions to Reduce Ergonomic Injuries in Meatpacking and Other Industries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Today, workers in the meatpacking industry are often afflicted with tendinitis, carpal tunnel syndrome, and other chronic injuries and illnesses which affect the upper extremities.
		In fact, the meatpacking industry's incidence of disorders due to "repeated trauma" was nearly 75 times that of industry as a whole in the later 1980's.
		While the meatpacking industry is working to correct this problem, ergonomic injuries and illnesses continue to exact a tremendous toll on meatpacking workers.
	www.cdc.gov /niosh/95-102.html (642 words)

	Meatpacking
		From the Civil War until the 1920s Chicago was the country's largest meatpacking center and the acknowledged headquarters of the industry.
		Railroads centralized meatpacking in the latter half of the nineteenth century; trucks and highways decentralized it during the last half of the twentieth.
		At the end of the twentieth century, the meatpacking industry was widely dispersed but still under government regulation.
	www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org /pages/804.html (1302 words)

	Ergoweb - Ergonomics Program Management Guidelines For Meatpacking Plants
		A: The guidelines were developed primarily with a view to the larger meatpacking employers where the greatest ergonomic problems are known to exist--and where most of the employees in the industry work.
		A: The guidelines are not intended to be "one size fits all." OSHA regards each of the program elements--worksite analysis, hazard prevention and control, training and education, and medical management--as essential to a comprehensive program.
		The aim of the guidelines is for all meatpacking employers to set about identifying and correcting ergonomic hazards in the same systematic way.
	www.ergoweb.com /resources/reference/guidelines/mpg4.cfm (5644 words)

	Working Conditions in American Slaughterhouses: Worse than You Thought
		Rudkus, a Lithuanian immigrant meatpacker toiling in Chicago stockyards, was the hero of Sinclair's novel.
		In the 1930s, unionization swept through the meatpacking industry, and for decades meat jobs were well paid, came with health insurance and led to stable communities.
		Meatpacking now employs just under 150,000 people, and the Immigration and Naturalization Services estimates one quarter of the workers in Nebraska and Iowa are illegal immigrants.
	www.organicconsumers.org /irrad/slaughterworkers.cfm (1080 words)

	cbs2chicago.com - Meatpacking A Century After 'The Jungle' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Even the harshest critics acknowledge government regulations and inspectors have made meatpacking far cleaner and safer than it was when Sinclair described rats scurrying over piles of meat and sick animals stumbling to slaughter.
		But after he quit meatpacking, he stayed in the Omaha area, working in a garment factory that, ironically, later moved to Mexico to take advantage of low wages.
		Both the meatpacking companies and the United Food and Commercial Workers union -- which says it represents more than 50 percent of meat and poultry workers nationwide -- have adapted to large numbers of foreign-born workers, offering, among other things, classes in English.
	cbs2chicago.com /local/local_story_112152833.html (1465 words)

	Union Organizers Hope to Mitigate âInherentâ Meatpacking Hazards - The NewStandard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Meatpacking, one of the countryâs most dangerous jobs, is carried out almost completely by immigrants.
		Meatpacking, one of the countryâs most dangerous jobs, is carried out almost completely by immigrants, including refugees resettled in the US from Africa and Asia and many undocumented workers from Mexico and other parts of Latin America.
		In the Midwest, meatpacking is one of the main industries employing immigrants.
	newstandardnews.net /content/index.cfm/items/1838 (1189 words)

	Not Geniuses: Meatpacking Reform
		One of the big problems with meatpacking in general is that the industry is, well, corrupt.
		Meatpacking used to be safe, both for consumers and for workers, paid decent wages, and paid ranchers a decent purchasing price.
		Meatpacking workers were effectively butchers - skilled workers who could slaughter an animal from start to finish with their own hands.
	www.notgeniuses.com /archives/000544.html (853 words)

	meatpacking - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Meatpacking Industry, large industry involving the slaughtering, processing, and distribution of cattle, sheep, and hogs.
		From 1870 to 1900 the United States became the world’s foremost industrial nation.
		Meatpacking Industry : pictures related to the meatpacking industry
	encarta.msn.com /meatpacking.html (78 words)

	Bad Meat ERIC SCHLOSSER / The Nation v.275, n.8, 16sep02
		The Bush Administration and its Republican allies in Congress have allowed the meatpacking industry to gain control of the nation's food safety system, much as the airline industry was given responsibility for airport security in the years leading up to the September 11 attacks.
		The meatpacking industry promptly sued the USDA in federal court to block such tests.
		With strong backing from the meatpacking industry, Supreme Beef sued the USDA, eventually won the lawsuit and succeeded this past December in overturning the USDA's salmonella limits.
	www.mindfully.org /Food/Bad-Meat-Schlosser16sep02.htm (1928 words)

	What's At Stake: Act Now to Support Tyson Meatpacking Workers
		A second report by two University researchers found that Tyson's Pasco plant is one of the most unsafe meatpacking plants in the nation, with injury rates nearly three times the industry average.
		The contract that Tyson is threatening to impose would freeze workers' wages for five years and would eliminate important union rights which would effectively end union representation at the plant.
		Meatpacking is dangerous work, especially at Tyson's Pasco plant where the injury rate is nearly three times the national average for plants of comparable size.
	www.unionvoice.org /campaign/TysonAppeal/explanation (397 words)

	cbs4denver.com - Swift Meatpacking Layoffs Hit Hard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Maricuz Zabala is wondering how she will be able to make the $1,143 monthly mortgage payments on the new house she shares with her mother, who collects Social Security; her daughter, who just had a baby; and her son-in-law, whose income won't cover the bills.
		They are among some 800 Swift & Co. meatpacking plant workers who will be out of a job four days before Christmas, let go as the biggest employer in Greeley sees fewer cattle and shifts production to supermarket-ready foods.
		The plant still will have about 1,700 workers, but the layoffs are a blow to northern Colorado, hard hit in the past several years by the high-tech downturn and the state's lagging economy.
	cbs4denver.com /topstories/local_story_352141114.html (869 words)

	U.S. meatpacking industry under fire - Financial Times - MSNBC.com
		While line speeds are regulated by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the report said it assessed speeds solely on the basis of food safety considerations, not worker safety.
		Meatpackers, driven by maximizing profit margins, had in recent years raised the volume of animals that went through a plant by increasing the speed at which they were processed.
		“Meatpacking has become the most dangerous factory job in America.” Human Rights Watch called on the U.S. government to legislate to slow down line speeds to “reasonable levels” and set rules for workplace health and safety and for workers' compensation benefits.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/6870432 (602 words)

	The Columbus Online Community - Columbus Telegram (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		She has studied the meatpacking industry in Nebraska for years, as many of the workers are Hispanic immigrants.
		The meatpackers bill of rights outlines 11 fundamental rights for workers, such as the right to a safe workplace.
		The president of an Omaha-based union that represents some meatpacking workers said she would ask Gov. Dave Heineman to publicly back the bill of rights and take steps to form a committee to evaluate safety in plants.
	www.columbustelegram.com /articles/2006/11/16/news/news2meatpacking.txt (720 words)

	Structural Changes in Meatpacking
		The causes and consequences of these structural and behavioral changes in meatpacking is a contentious issue for many.
		Clearly, mergers and acquisitions have increased the rate of consolidation among meatpacking firms.
		Both in research for the book and work since then, he has studied economies of size in slaughtering and fabricating, price discovery and pricing methods, and competition impacts on fed cattle prices, and effects of captive supplies on fed cattle prices.
	agecon.okstate.edu /meatpacking (218 words)

	meatpacking — FactMonster.com
		meatpacking or meat-processing,wholesale business of buying and slaughtering animals and then processing and distributing their carcasses to retailers.
		In 1869, George Hammond, a meatpacker in Detroit, shipped frozen beef to Boston in a car chilled with ice from the Great Lakes.
		Meatpacking byproducts include hides for leather; edible fats; inedible fats for soap; bones for buttons; blood meal for fertilizer; hair for brushes; intestines for sausage casing; as well as gelatin, glue, and glycerin.
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/bus/A0832427.html (346 words)

	New York City's Meatpacking District - High Line, Hotel Gansevoort, clubs, restaurants, galleries - pictures and history
		The Meatpacking District is experiencing an evolution from industrial to cutting-edge trendy.
		The High Line links the Hell's Kitchen, Chelsea and Meatpacking Districts and is envisioned to be a grand, public promenade.
		A new Ground Zero Museum Workshop is located in the Meatpacking District at 420 West 14th street, second floor.
	www.inetours.com /New_York/Pages/Meatpacking.html (439 words)

	The Chain Never Stops
		Allowing every worker to select his or her own physician would liberate medical care from the dictates of the meatpacking companies and the medical staff they control.
		If independent underwriters had to insure the meatpackers, the threat of higher insurance premiums would quickly get the attention of the meatpacking industry—and force it to take safety issues seriously.
		Michael Glover is just one of thousands of meatpacking workers who've been mistreated and then discarded.
	www.motherjones.com /news/feature/2001/07/meatpacking.html (5997 words)

	The Profits of Meatpacking (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		A lot of people are worried that three major meatpackers so dominate the market for red meat that they could be pushing down prices for cattle and pushing some ranchers and feedlots towards financial ruin.
		The report issued last week by the USDA was largely viewed as clearing the meatpackers of any intentional effort to control the cattle markets.
		More ranchers and cattle feeders are starting to accept that maybe the meatpacking industry alone is not the source of their headaches.
	net.unl.edu /~swi/pers/meatpack.html (1893 words)

	The Shame of Meatpacking
		In 2000 the official illness and injury rate for meatpacking workers was 25 percent.
		Because so many meatpacking workers are recent, non-English-speaking immigrants, some of them in the country illegally, they are less likely to complain about unsafe conditions.
		Trying to take on a giant meatpacker is not an easy task; in Amarillo more than 500 workers who walked out lost their jobs.
	www.thenation.com /doc/20020916/olsson (999 words)

	INS Questions Nebraska Meatpacking Workers as Part of Operation Vanguard
		Rather than auditing the I-9 forms of meatpacking plants on a "piecemeal" basis, Operation Vanguard comprises an industry-wide audit of the meatpacking industry in Nebraska and western Iowa.
		Furthermore, after the initial audit of the meatpacking plants, the INS intends to follow-up with additional audits.
		The INS will continue visiting meatpacking plants through late May and into June 1999 until it has gone to each of the 40 plants where workers with discrepancies in their work papers have been identified.
	www.nilc.org /immsemplymnt/wkplce_enfrcmnt/wkplcenfrc008.htm (676 words)

	Streetsblog » A New Vision for the Meatpacking District
		The process began in early 2005, when Project for Public Spaces began working with business owners and local residents to define problems, identify best practices, and formulate a vision for what people wanted their neighborhood to be (Click here to download PPS's findings).
		When Danish urban designer Jan Gehl visited the Meatpacking District in November 2005, he remarked, "the most encouraging part of my visit has been meeting citizens in every part of the city who are working to improve their own neighborhoods.
		If she wants to see that vision become a reality, the process underway in the Meatpacking District may very well be the model for how to make it happen.
	streetsblog.org /2006/10/23/a-new-vision-for-the-meatpacking-district (1278 words)

	Muckraking the industry of meatpacking - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
		Schlosser is the author of "Fast Food Nation," the best-selling expose of the junk-food industry, which, if read by enough people, might send McDonald's' stock into a permanent tailspin and turn half the country's cheeseburger addicts into vegans.
		In the course of visiting meatpacking plants while researching "Fast Food Nation," Schlosser discovered for himself why the meatpacking industry has become the most dangerous occupation in America.
		And though the meatpacking industry no doubt would like additional space in Mother Jones to tell more of its side of things, Schlosser's exercise in old-fashioned muckraking makes a strong case that workers - unionized or not - are getting the butt-end of the roast.
	www.pittsburghlive.com /x/pittsburghtrib/s_23280.html (561 words)

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