Alabama’s poultry workers face deplorable and dangerous work conditions. Yet no one has previously investigated Alabama’s poultry processing plants. This investigation is modeled on the Nebraska Appleseed Center report examining worker safety in meatpacking plants, The Speed Kills You.
Through research and interviews, this report, Unsafe at These Speeds: Alabama’s Poultry Industry and its Disposable Workers, exposes the dangerous working conditions in Alabama’s poultry processing plants. The paramount concern for the Southern Poverty Law Center and Alabama Appleseed Center for Law & Justice is worker safety. In the poultry industry, many minority and immigrant workers lack knowledge of workplace safety standards and rarely pursue available remedies.
Improving the conditions in Alabama’s poultry plants will not only protect the health and safety of these vulnerable workers but provide a model for other states and encourage federal reform of the industry.
Alabama’s poultry workers face deplorable and dangerous work conditions. Yet no one has previously investigated Alabama’s poultry processing plants. This investigation is modeled on the Nebraska Appleseed Center report examining worker safety in meatpacking plants, The Speed Kills You.
Through research and interviews, this report, Unsafe at These Speeds: Alabama’s Poultry Industry and its Disposable Workers, exposes the dangerous working conditions in Alabama’s poultry processing plants. The paramount concern for the Southern Poverty Law Center and Alabama Appleseed Center for Law & Justice is worker safety. In the poultry industry, many minority and immigrant workers lack knowledge of workplace safety standards and rarely pursue available remedies.
Improving the conditions in Alabama’s poultry plants will not only protect the health and safety of these vulnerable workers but provide a model for other states and encourage federal reform of the industry.