The Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union recently negotiated a new five-year contract at the Tyson Foods poultry-processing plant in Shelbyville, Tenn.
The Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union recently negotiated a new five-year contract at the Tyson Foods poultry-processing plant in Shelbyville, Tenn. Under the new contract the plant's workers were to get eight paid holidays, as before; but Labor Day was no longer to be one of the eight....

The effects of chicken leg bone extract on antioxidative properties under different heating condition.
ABSTRACT : The aim of this study was to extract chicken leg bone, which is a by-product of industrial poultry processing, using different heating temperatures (80, 90 and 100[degrees]C) and durations (5, 10 and 15 min). The pH value, soluble protein content, peptide content and antioxidative properties, including superoxide...

Godrej in JV with Tyson Foods for poultry processing.
Byline: Kala Vijayraghavan MUMBAI: Tyson Foods Inc, the world's largest processor and marketer of meat products and the second largest food company in the US, is joining hands with Godrej Group for a poultry processing and marketing joint venture in India. The US giant will...

How Do You Respond When ICE Shows Up at Your Farm, Ranch or Business?
For several years, the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) agency charged with enforcement of employer immigration compliance has expanded significantly its worksite activities. In the last fiscal year, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) dramatically increased the amount of fines and civil judgments in worksite investigations, obtaining more than $30...

Farm labor; 21st century issues and challenges.
9781604560053 Farm labor; 21st century issues and challenges. Ed. by Alvin W. Burton and Irwin B. Telpov. Nova Science Publishers 2008 211 pages $69.00 Hardcover HD1525 The seven chapters of this...

Strengthening a covenant.
The share of the American workforce filled by foreign-born workers has increased from one in 10 in 1990 to one out of six in 2006. Immigrants thrive here as workers because labor shortages exist along a broad expanse of jobs. Close to half of the software engineers in this...

Poultry slaughtering plants: concentrations of microbial aerosols in poultry slaughtering and processing plants.
ABSTRACT Concentrations of airborne microorganisms were measured at four poultry slaughtering plants during four one-day visits using Anderson single- and six-stage viable particle (bioaerosol) samplers. Nonselective bioaerosols including total aerobic mesophilic bacteria, psychrotrophic bacteria, and yeasts and molds were measured at approximately 40 sites in and around...

RBI support for poultry farmers.
Byline: Atmadip Ray KOLKATA: Even as bird flu wreaks havoc in 13 of West Bengal's 19 districts, banking circles are getting their act in place to support distressed poultry farmers. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has despatched its officials in the affected districts to assess the...

'No impact on egg consumption'.
Byline: Padmaja Shastri HYDERABAD: The bird flu outbreak in West Bengal is limited to just two districts, Birbhum and South Dinaipur, and has had no impact on the consumption of chicken and eggs across the country, according to Anuradha Desai, chairperson of the National Egg Coordination Committee...

Finding poultry defects before processing. (Screening).
Researchers believe they are on the edge of a breakthrough, but they don't want to count their chickens before they're processed. At Gold Kist's poultry processing plant in Carrollton, Ga., a machine vision system developed at the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI), Atlanta, is undergoing field testing. If it...