Food and farmworkers are urging Congress to improve worker safety through the next farm bill.
Food Chain Workers Alliance co-director Suzanne Adely points to the Protect America’s Meat Processing Workers Act, introduced in the U.S. Senate, as a way to increase employee safety.
“Our worker base in the poultry and meat processing sector will often tell us that these sort of incredibly fast line speeds are leading to injuries and like very devastating injuries, or leading to deaths, leading to chronic illnesses,” she shares.
