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We Don't Play 'Chicken' with Safety: Worker Wins
… Our latest roundup of worker wins begins with poultry workers coming together to preserve safe line speeds and includes numerous examples of working people organizing, bargaining and mobilizing for a better life. … Poultry Workers Defeat Dangerous Speed-Up Proposal : The National Chicken Council submitted a proposal to the USDA to increase the legally allowable speed that working people on poultry lines can be held to. Across the South, … Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers (SMART) Local 19 after an 18-year battle. Employees at Micro-Clean, who work around some of the most dangerous chemical and biological hazards possible, succeeded in winning improved safety and …