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The site of one of the big ICE raids, Koch Foods' plant in Morton, Miss., has been under scrutiny recently for its business practices. 1/6https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/07/us/ice-raids-mississippi.html
This is the same place where managers were accused of discriminating against black farmers. A federal investigator found evidence of unjust discrimination, but the company denied wrongdoing and hasn't faced any penalty. 2/6 propublica.org/article/how-a-…
This is also the same plant where the company paid $3.75M to settle a @USEEOC complaint alleging discrimination against Latino workers. Koch Foods did not admit wrongdoing. 3/6 courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
@USEEOC And Koch Foods is fighting several lawsuits alleging that it conspired with other big chicken companies to fix prices. The Justice Department is also investigating. 4/6 nytimes.com/2019/06/25/bus…
@USEEOC I have another story coming about working conditions inside chicken processing plants. Based on my reporting, these are very stressful and dangerous jobs (higher injury rate than coal mining and construction, according to BLS). 5/6 bls.gov/web/osh/cd_r5.…
@USEEOC There's very high turnover, which is why the companies rely heavily on immigrants. My colleague @MichaelGrabell wrote in 2017 about a village in Guatemala full of people who'd worked at a chicken factory in Ohio. 6/6 propublica.org/article/case-f…
@USEEOC @MichaelGrabell P.S. Koch Foods pronounced "Cook" and is not related to the Koch brothers.
