Question ETH501 MOD 5 – 5 pages minimum Packing Safely

ETH501 MOD 5 – 5 pages minimum

Packing Safely

Safety standards in the meatpacking industry commands attention these days. Machines and assembly (or de-assembly I suppose) lines move faster and faster, posing ever greater risk to life, limb, or digit. With greater number of immigrant and undocumented workers laboring in the industry, concerns about safety loom larger. Let’s have a look at the issue….

The issue of safety in the meatpacking industry got it’s initial push from a group called Human Rights Watch in 2005. They are an international organization that looks at many different human rights abuse issues. Since the concern here in some ways involves migrant workers, they decided to take a look at what was going on, and issued a scathing report.

Please go to:

Abuses Against Workers Taint U.S. Meat and Poultry

January 24, 2005

http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2005/01/24/abuses-against-workers-taint-us-meat-and-poultry

The entire report is available on this site. But most importantly, there were a number of recommendations made. HRW recommended the following:

• New federal and state laws should reduce line speed in meat and poultry plants and establish new ergonomics standards to reduce repetitive stress injuries. Health and safety authorities should apply stronger enforcement measures. States should develop stronger worker compensation laws and enforcement mechanisms.
• Employers should not engage in aggressive, intimidating anti-organizing campaigns that take advantage of loopholes and weaknesses in the U.S. labor law system. Congress should enact legislation bringing U.S. labor law into compliance with international standards (e.g. to prohibit the permanent replacement of striking workers) and should also create stronger remedies for violations of workers’ rights.
• New laws and policies should ensure respect for the human rights of immigrant workers, whatever their legal status. Immigrants should have the same workplace protections as non-immigrants, including coverage under fair labor standards and other labor laws, and the same remedies when their rights are violated.

DO YOU AGREE WITH THESE RECOMMENDATIONS?

Feel free to focus on one recommendation or all three. Give a clear commentary on your view of the situation. Please do a web-search on workplace safety in the meatpacking industry to find more information.

EXPECTATIONS:

Please write a five page answer to this question and hand it in by the end of this module; be sure to frame your argument in utilitarian and deontological terms.

For more information go to:

· Click Here for the US Department of Labor and OSHA’s information on safety in the meatpacking industry

· Click Here for a VERY detailed report on Worker safety issues as related to Advanced Meat Recovery

Required Reading for Case Assignment

Improvements in workplace safety–United States, 1900-1999
MMWR. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report; Atlanta; Jun 11, 1999; Anonymous;

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