WILMINGTON, Del. — A federal judge in Wilmington has refused to dismiss a lawsuit alleging that poultry company Mountaire Farms failed to properly pay chicken catchers at its Millsboro plant. The ...
A chicken wrangling company in South Carolina owes employees more than $96,000 in back pay for overtime, according to the U.S. Department of Labor. The company paid employees piecemeal for catching ...
Twenty-one chicken catchers say Mountaire Farms, of Wilmington, Del., stiffed them for overtime and violated other labor laws, in a class action in Delaware Federal Court. Sign up for new weekly ...
The poultry industry needs people like Jimmy Nicks. A former chicken catcher, Jimmy used to head out to the farms, often at night, scoop up chickens by their legs and bring them back to the ...
A wave of outsourcing by giant poultry producing companies is sparking new union organizing efforts on Maryland’s famed Eastern Shore, and in the adjoining chicken producing areas of Delaware and ...
A chicken wrangling company in South Carolina owes employees more than $96,000 in back pay for overtime, according to the U.S. Department of Labor. The company paid employees piecemeal for catching ...