US poultry workers denied toilet breaks resort to diapers: Oxfam
Source: Agence France-Presse
US poultry workers denied toilet breaks resort to diapers: Oxfam
13 May 2016
Poultry workers in the United States are routinely denied bathroom breaks to the point of being forced to wear diapers while on the production line, a new report claims.
The "vast majority" of 250,000 workers in the sector are mocked, ignored or threatened with being fired when they ask to go to the bathroom, Oxfam America said in the study. "Workers struggle to cope with this denial of a basic human need. They urinate and defecate while standing on the line; they wear diapers to work," said the report, released on Tuesday.
The US arm of the global anti-poverty charity added that workers would take on dangerously low levels of liquids, enduring pain and discomfort while risking serious health problems.
The group quoted anonymous workers at Tyson Foods, Perdue Farms, Pilgrim's Pride and Sanderson Farms, which between them have 100,000 workers and account for 60 percent of the sector.
Read more: https://www.afp.com/en/news/15/us-poultry-workers-denied-toilet-breaks-resort-diapers-oxfam
lonestarnot
(77,097 posts)Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)are undocumented immigrants.
TexasBushwhacker
(20,250 posts)reddread
(6,896 posts)Im not much on sarcasm tags myself.
TexasBushwhacker
(20,250 posts)reddread
(6,896 posts)made easier by a lack of oversight made easier by a surplus of contributions.
and we know to who.
Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)He said he lasted 2 weeks there. Nasty work, gutting chickens.
TexasBushwhacker
(20,250 posts)When the retain price per pound us $3 or less, they make their money on volume. There are a lot of repetitive motion injuries. I had a neighbor who worked as a wrapper at a chicken plant. 8 or more hours a day it was wrap and flip over and over. She had to have carpal tunnel surgery on both hands.
Even though they wear insulated suits to stay warm, standing on cold hard concrete all day is tough on the back and hips. I knew a butcher that ended up disabled and homeless because of it.
reddread
(6,896 posts)Tyson always ring a bell.
they were often mentioned as supporters in 92.
Seems like Wal Mart never got a lot of mention?
Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)as did Sam Walton. Both were clients of Hillary's corporation-defending law firm.
reddread
(6,896 posts)I think that would be nice to know.
Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)reddread
(6,896 posts)Saw some reference to Hillary's Wal-Mart holdings today, I had never heard it put that way before.
pretty serious topic.
Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)I don't have a ready answer. But one thing I find interesting is that the first vacation the Clintons took after Bill became President (August 1993) was to Springdale, Arkansas, the home of Tyson's Foods.
reddread
(6,896 posts)thanks I had just read about that but forgot or didnt latch onto that fact.
Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)Springdale is a factory town that would seem to be an unlikely spot for a vacation for someone with no family there. Apparently he was staying with some local bigshot who had a nice big house out on the lake.
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)The law means nothing when you don't have the manpower, due to funding, to enforce the law. This is exactly how republicans make our laws meaningless
reddread
(6,896 posts)money is buypartisan
ViseGrip
(3,133 posts)No words! We are in a great need of help...
Third Doctor
(1,574 posts)So many in this country know nothing of history and we are repeating it.
gregcrawford
(2,382 posts)... they're big contributors! The corporate corruption in this country is an obscenity.
tabasco
(22,974 posts)The oligarchs and their lackeys in the two major parties are taking us backward to the 19th century.
appalachiablue
(41,199 posts)living conditions, lack of social programs and poverty.
http://www.motherjones.com/media/2006/01/jungle-100
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)because we turned our backs on unions.
appalachiablue
(41,199 posts)have also seriously damaged and altered the media, journalism, public schools, academia and cities and urban areas which are becoming gentrified and cost prohibitive. Like labor unions, these were institutional bulwarks of democracy and liberalism.
LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)in an animal rights article about factory farming and how it's bad for animals and humans alike.
dgauss
(884 posts)Someone who could put these vast injustices into a human context that people would pay attention to. If that's fiction, so be it. There are unconscionable things going on and too much indifference.
rusty quoin
(6,133 posts)than he used. If I remember correctly, his chapters were in editions of the paper. I imagine some blog could have another like him, but the whole thing is so diluted by it all.
I don't know how anyone can make the difference like Dickens did. And it took a couple of decades for him to do it.
whereisjustice
(2,941 posts)Babel_17
(5,400 posts)Thanks for posting this.
reddread
(6,896 posts)senz
(11,945 posts)until either congress was shamed into passing appropriate laws or unions were formed to forbid such employee abuse.
northernsouthern
(1,511 posts)I had friends that worked for Tyson growing up while Bill was in charge. They could fire you for calling off sick ever. I avoid all tyson products...oh and it didn't help as a kid to see a tyson truck going way over the speed limit down one of our small county dirt roads by our house hit a slow moving pregnant black dog on a bright tan dirt road that was visible for a mile away. F tyson.
moondust
(20,025 posts)Richer faster richer faster richer faster richer faster...
They do not want to be out on the 14th green and get a call telling them profits are down, by God.
Richer faster richer faster richer faster richer faster...
McGovernGirl
(8 posts)My aunt, a NYC teacher, worked summers as a union organizer. I remember her telling me about going to Tupelo, Mississippi to organize the chicken pluckers (in the 50's, I think). Well, so much for that.
This is what happens in a country where corporatism reigns and unions are being destroyed.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)ck4829
(35,096 posts)That sounds far worse than sneezing on a salad.
K&R.
mitty14u2
(1,015 posts)Catching Chickens is a year around job mostly in the South, who do you think caught Chickens before undocumented workers flooded the market? Poor American Citizens, this idea Americans don't want jobs is BS, a Bi Fat Lie to allow corporations or any company not to pay Social Security to workman's compensation and taxes.
A truck pulls up to a 100,000 chickens at 1:00 am by day break the chickens and truck are gone, nobody sees who caught the chickens, nobody cares because they are all subcontracted out by say Tyson and they are paid cash!
reddread
(6,896 posts)thank you for not letting that lie.
I see homeless people everywhere in this town
and so many many more that I dont see.
they would nearly all like that sort of opportunity
minus the inhuman labor abuses.
this is such a disgusting situation and we have to acknowledge WHY.
lonestarnot
(77,097 posts)illness.