Tyson Foods’ Secret Recipe for Carving Up Workers’ Comp Over the past 25 years, the giant meatpacking company has taken a lead in pushing for changes in workers’ comp in state after state — often to the detriment of workers. by Michael Grabell ProPublica, Dec. 11, 2015, 10:06 a.m. Insult to Injury States nationwide are…

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 11, 2015 Contact: Andrew Jerome, 202-314-3106 ajerome NFU Frustrated by Yet Another Enormous Merger Result is Less Competition, Reduced Innovation, Likely Higher Costs for Family Farmers WASHINGTON (December 11, 2015) – National Farmers Union (NFU) President Roger Johnson expressed frustration today with the announcement that Dupont and Dow Chemical announced a…

Senators—Voluntary is not COOL! Posted December 9, 2015 by Shefali Sharma Used under creative commons license from Fiona MacGinty-O’Neill. This week the World Trade Organization (WTO) gave Canada and Mexico the right to impose over a billion dollars’ worth of sanctions per year unless the U.S. Congress repeals a common sense law, Country of Origin-Labeling…

R-CALF USA Appeals to Presidential Frontrunners to Defend Mandatory COOL Billings, Mont. – In what R-CALF USA CEO Bill Bullard acknowledges is a Hail Mary effort to preserve mandatory country-of-origin labeling (COOL), today the group overnighted letters to Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, the current frontrunners in the 2016 presidential race. The letters seek the…

Treason By Trade The ‘free trade’ agreements are Treason by Trade. These trade agreements are a rigged game in which our domestic producers are put at a disadvantage. Goods from foreign countries can be imported into the U.S. duty free. The foreign trading ‘partners’ are allowed to continue to charge punitive tariffs (as high as…

http://www.wsj.com/articles/wto-says-canada-mexico-can-slap-1-billion-in-tariffs-on-u-s-over-meat-labels-1449508424?mod=pls_whats_news_us_business_f WTO Says Canada, Mexico Can Slap $1 Billion in Tariffs on U.S. Over Meat Labels The decision caps a yearslong battle over country-of-origin labeling rules The U.S. requires packages of beef, pork and other meat products to disclose where animals were born, raised and slaughtered. Photo: Associated Press By Kelsey Gee and Paul Vieira…

The media is finally beginning to acknowledge that meatpackers have two trade associations: The North American Meat Institute (NAMI) and the NCBA. See language in red below. WTO Approves $1 Billion in Tariffs on U.S. Goods December 07, 2015, 12:35:00 PM EDT By Dow Jones Business News The decision caps a yearslong battle over country-of-origin…

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 7, 2015 Contact: Paola Masman 202 688 5145, paola Global WTO Tribunal Overrules Congress on Food Labeling, $1 Billion Sanctions Washington, D.C.- Today, a World Trade Organization (WTO) tribunal authorized over $1 billion in sanctions against the U.S., in retaliation for the congressionally passed Country of Origin Labeling (COOL) law being…

Mark Ruffalo at the Sundance Film Festival, in Park City, Utah. (photo: Victoria Will/Invision/AP) ‘Monsanto Chief Is Horrible’ By Mark Ruffalo, EcoWatch 06 December 15 onsanto chief is horrible … And I got to tell him that to his face after his interview on CBS This Morning. Approaching someone like this isn’t really my thing….