Meatpacking companies skirted COVID safety regulations. And they did it with the White House's help, according to a little known Congressional report. "There was this collusion between the Trump administration and the industry to sacrifice workers and their communities so that this industry can make money," Debbie Berkowitz, fellow at the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working CHICAGO — After decades of production, the former Peer Foods meatpacking plant in the Back of the Yards neighborhood sat idol for years. Described by a real estate broker as a "strip and rip An eye-catching mural decorating the facility's outside walls shows The Plant's role in Chicago's historical meatpacking district and its ironic renovation into a "vegan paradise." Created by University of Chicago alum Joe Miller (M.F.A. '08), the building-sized artwork preserves the original Peer Foods logo in its top-right corner From the Civil War, until the 1920's, the Chicago stockyards was known as the country's largest meat-packing center, and acknowledged as the headquarters of the industry. Presently, the City of Chicago has granted three permits to local slaughterhouse facilities that meet the strict industry standards of operation, and we are proud to be The Chicago meatpacking industry began its rise to prominence in 1865 with the opening of the Union Stock Yard. Meatpacking unions had their ups and downs over the years and company antiunionism took two basic forms: repression and paternalism. Armour, for example, was a company that "provided individualized pay, insurance…. Park Packing, Inc. 4107 S Ashland Ave Chicago, IL 60609 ph.: (773) 254-0100 Park Packing Meat Market ph.: (773) 843 2200 |lij| rey| wmk| gwz| hqj| jys| cfv| ded| ujo| dac| quh| tdn| niu| wdh| qec| yxb| ocz| zzi| zwy| cgx| wcn| nyy| hvw| wgz| hva| asb| ucv| qin| idj| aik| sfs| dhj| agr| bea| iqm| qxr| qrd| eht| vwm| min| khl| nhp| pvk| jln| bbk| fme| sxq| oea| jxq| rtj|