April 02, 2024
Poultry processing workers sought preliminary approval Monday for deals with Case Foods Inc. and Mountaire Farms totaling $22 million that would make the companies the 10th and 11th wage-fixing defendants to settle out of a broader Maryland federal court case where total payouts reach $217.25 million.
April 03, 2023
A Maryland federal judge on Monday gave her preliminary blessing to Perdue Farms' $60.7 million settlement with workers who claim the company conspired to keep wages low at its poultry processing plants, certifying a nationwide settlement class of past and present Perdue poultry workers.
December 08, 2022
Perdue Farms has agreed to settle employee claims in two separate states where the company plotted to depress wages, according to notices filed by plant employees in both Maryland and Colorado federal courts.
September 29, 2022
A Maryland federal judge gave her preliminary stamp of approval to three settlements collectively valued at nearly $85 million over allegations that Cargill Meat Solutions, Sanderson Farms and Wayne Farms conspired to depress workers' wages.
September 12, 2022
Cargill Meat Solutions, Sanderson Farms and Wayne Farms will pay a combined total of $84.8 million to settle allegations the poultry companies illegally conspired to keep their wages low, according to a proposed agreement filed in Maryland federal court.
July 06, 2021
Pilgrim's Pride Corp., a subsidiary of JBS, has reached a $29 million settlement with workers who claim it conspired with other poultry companies to keep their wages low.
March 11, 2021
A Maryland federal judge declined to toss proposed class action claims from workers against three poultry companies accused of plotting to keep wages low and also rejected an effort to trim the suit to exclude jobs the plaintiffs didn't do.
December 21, 2020
Tyson Foods Inc., Perdue Farms Inc. and other poultry processing companies have urged a Maryland federal judge to partially dismiss a proposed class action accusing them of a wage-fixing conspiracy, arguing the hourly workers who brought the suit didn't hold some of the jobs allegedly affected.
September 16, 2020
A slew of poultry processing behemoths, including Tyson Foods Inc. and Perdue Farms Inc., dodged a proposed class action accusing them of a massive wage-fixing conspiracy, with a Maryland federal judge ruling Wednesday that the workers would have to add specifics to their suit before it could go forward.
October 09, 2019
A Maryland federal judge on Wednesday granted a bid by ex-chicken producer employees to consolidate related cases in a proposed class action accusing chicken processing companies of a decadelong conspiracy to fix the wages of hundreds of thousands of workers.