Smithfield Foods
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Submitted:
1/15/2006 06:33:00
Principal Address:
200 Commerce Street Smithfield VA 23430
Phone:
(757) 365-3000
Website:
http://www.smithfieldfoods.com
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  • [WHA Note: initial evidence presented 1/15/2006] workers allowed to work untill they are injured; then become illegal and are refused treatment. high injury and turnover. company performes illegal preemployment physicals,by nonlicensed emt and nurses,practicing medicine, and company medical treatment,begins with;"do you want to work or do you want to go home?" one injury required many "stiches" along workers forearm, he was allowed to go to emergency room,only after he and coworker were tested for drugs; later company emt called ER to see when patient was seen and discharged, (info given over phone violation of HIPPA), employee fired upon return to work. reason: the drive, from hospital, back, to work, took ten minutes too long, worker, must have stoped, somewhere else, and could not be "paid" to do that! one that never made the papers? employee suffering from heat stroke, forced to wait for treatment 3 hours untill he could perform required company piss test before going to hospital, died of complications on way to hospital. why wouldn't "er" performed drug test have been sufficient? body dosn't produce urine when in stroke condition. all under direct supervision of sheri string, et al @smithfield meats in va home office.
  • Washington Times reports on Jan. 10, 2006: 13 illegal immigrants arrested at Smithfield Foods plant. 12 from Mexico one from Guatemala. All 13 used falsified and fraudulent documents to complete I-9 forms. see, washtimes.com/metro/20060112-102122-6024r.htm Also, reported on local ABC news affiliate and "The Daily Press".
  • AP reports that Smithfield is knowingly rehiring illegal aliens. TAR HEEL, N.C. A small group of employees representing workers who walked off jobs at a Smithfield Foods Inc. slaughterhouse met Tuesday with company officials, who insisted they must fire workers who can't prove they have the legal right to work in the United States. About 1,000 nonunion workers, mostly Hispanic, walked off the job at the world's largest hog processing plant last week, upset the company fired workers it said provided false identification information. The employees who walked off returned to work over the weekend after the company agreed to rehire the fired workers and give them 60 days to provide proper identification documents. But the company said it stressed during Tuesday's two-hour meeting with about 20 workers that it could not keep any illegal immigrants on the payroll. "Unless they can provide the (documents), we will have to terminate them," said company spokesman Dennis Pittman. "They don't like it, but they understand it now. We would prefer to have a legal way to keep these people here." The walkout began Thursday, spurred on by the United Food and Commercial Workers union, which claimed the job action shut down the mammoth plant. The company said the walkout only slowed production at the operation 25 miles south of Fayetteville where Smithfield slaughters up to 32,000 hogs a day. The workers have said they are upset with the company's decision to gather the names, Social Security numbers, birth dates and gender of workers at the plant. Smithfield said the effort was aimed at assuring federal officials the plant does not knowingly employ undocumented workers. About 500 to 600 workers were found to have unverifiable information, the company said. About 50 were fired for providing false information. The walkout ended Saturday after Smithfield representatives met with Rev. Carlos N. Arce, a Roman Catholic priest who helped broker the temporary settlement. Arce said after Tuesday's meeting the company has yet to offer a "permanent solution to the problem." "The workers came and they wanted to negotiate," Arce said. "The company said this wasn't a meeting to negotiate anything. It was only for information." The company said Tuesday's meeting was not with the union, which has tried for years to organize the plant's 5,000 employees and lost organizing elections in 1994 and 1997. "They're using immigration as an intimidation tool against workers who are finally standing up for their rights," said Eduardo Pena, a coordinator for the union, which has long complained about what it contends are unsafe working conditions at the plant. Shares of Smithfield, Va.-based Smithfield Foods, the world's largest pork processor, closed down 23 cents at $26.77 in trading Tuesday on the New York Stock Exchange.