If you've ever tried to catch a chicken, you know how difficult a job in a poultry plant can be. Throughout the South and Eastern Shore of the U.S., in California and Canada, 60,000 of us work in poultry plants, cleaning, cutting up, deboning and packaging chicken and turkey meat for millions of consumers here and abroad. We make everything from Thanksgiving turkeys to whole fryer chickens to chicken filet sandwiches. We also cook and marinate chicken products that save time for busy supermarket shoppers. It's a big - and growing - business: last year, we helped process the more than 500 million pounds of chicken produced every week in the U.S.
Like the meat packing and food processing industries, we face some very dangerous working conditions in poultry plants. Through our union, we are working to improve our jobs by rotating job assignments and learning safer methods of cutting to avoid repetitive stress injuries like carpal tunnel syndrome. Union representation has also given us better pay and benefits than many non-union poultry workers.
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