The editor and co-owner of the Storm Lake Times Pilot discusses his new book, Dear Marty, We Crapped In Our Nest: Notes from the Edge of the World.
Rachel Cramer
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Iowa Public Radio
Rachel Cramer
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Iowa Public Radio
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Tyson Foods is shuttering its pork processing plant in Perry on June 28. Community leaders are trying to make it easier for workers and their families to stay in the community and find new opportunities. -
Tyson announced last week that it will be closing its office in the Sioux City area. Community members are asking the food company to reconsider. -
More than 100 Afghan refugees moved to Sioux City to work at the meat processing plant across the border in Nebraska. But, the resources they needed to resettle in Iowa weren’t always quick to follow.
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The report by the House’s Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis said meat companies pushed to keep their plants open even though they knew workers were at high risk of catching the coronavirus. -
Cómo una pequeña ciudad de Iowa sigue lidiando con los efectos de un grande brote de COVID-19 -
Muchos de los empleados de las plantas procesadoras de carne de Iowa ya se encontraban en posiciones vulnerables. Entonces COVID les pegó fuerte en las plantas
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COVID le pegó duro a las plantas procesadoras de carne del país hace más de un año. Pero la seguridad de los trabajadores sigue siendo un tema polémico -
Reynolds’ claim that Iowa kept “the processing plants open,” ignores a number of closures reported by the plants themselves. -
A federal judge has thrown out a rule allowing pork plants to speed up production lines because the U.S. Department of Agriculture didn’t properly consider the risks to workers.
