Posts Tagged ‘Mountaire Farms’
Mountaire Farms to Purchase 3 Grain Elevators on MD’s Eastern Shore
Mountaire Farms will soon have three key locations for grain elevators on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. The poultry company has signed a Letter of Intent with Nagel Farm Service to purchase the three grain elevators – in Preston, Cordova and Wye Mills. Nagel will retain its other businesses. In the coming weeks, Mountaire expects…
Read MoreChicken Chat: Delmarva Chicken Association Releases 2021 Facts
Chicken is a big deal on Delmarva.How big?According to the Delmarva Chicken Association 2021 fact sheet, the region’s chicken community produced 567-million chickens last year, generating 4.2-billion pounds of shelf- and table-ready chicken.Wholesale value of Delmarva chicken was also reported at a record $4.2-billion.Independent chicken growers experienced a slight decline in income from 2020 to…
Read MoreMountaire Mobilizes For “Easter For Thousands”
“Easter for Thousands…”Mountaire Farms is expecting about 100 volunteers Wednesday in Selbyville to help pack about 3,000 meal boxes for local families in need.More than 50 churches and non-profits on Delmarva are taking part in the effort to feed up to 12,000 people. Each meal box includes a Mountaire roaster chicken, vegetables, mashed potatoes, gravy…
Read MoreMountaire Selbyville Employees Vote To Certify Teamsters
According to Mountaire Farms, an overwhelming majority of employees at its Selbyville processing plant who are members of Teamsters Local 355 have voted to remove the union. The National Labor Relations Board counted the votes, following an in-person election that was overseen by an NLRB official. The vote was 140-29 to separate from the union.…
Read MoreMountaire Farms Employees in Selbyville Looking to Oust Teamsters Union
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has ruled that employees at the Mountaire Farms processing plant in Selbyville who are members of the Teamsters Local 355 will get the chance to vote to decertify the union on March 17, 2022. Approximately 230 employees at the plant are members of the Teamsters Union, and work in…
Read MoreNLRB Certifies Vote At Mountaire-Selbyville To Oust Union
The National Labor Relations Board has certified the results of an election in which employees of Mountaire Farms in Selbyville voted overwhelmingly to separate from United Food and Commercial Workers Local 27. An election last year was legally challenged and the results were thrown out without a ballot count. In the recent election, the vote…
Read MoreMountaire Farms Employees in Selbyville Show Union the Door
Mountaire Farms employees at the Selbyville processing plant have fired their Union, the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 27. The mail-in ballots were counted Thursday at the National Labor Relations board regional office in Baltimore with 356 voting against the union and 80 voting for the union. The Selbyville plant has had union representation…
Read MoreBlessings For Badges Will Deliver Holiday Meals To 1st Responders On Duty
First responders in Sussex and Kent Counties who will be on duty Thanksgiving Day will not have to go without a holiday meal. Blessings for Badges, a volunteer-led non-profit founded in 2018, will prepare and deliver meals for police officers, firefighters, dispatchers, paramedics and correctional officers. Numerous restaurants are contributing trays of food (,J.D. Shuckers,…
Read MoreMountaire Employees File to Oust UFCW Union at Selbyville Plant
Employees at Mountaire’s Selbyville processing plant will get the chance to vote to get rid of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 27 later this month, according to the National Labor Relations Board. An employee-led petition last month was accepted by the NLRB, which sets in motion the process to let employees vote…
Read MoreVolunteers Invited For Mountaire Farms’ Thanksgiving For Thousands
Thanksgiving for Thousands is still more than two weeks away, but Mountaire Farms said Wednesday that preparations are well underway. Volunteer opportunities are still available for the packing event Monday November 22nd at Mountaire’s warehouse on Railroad Avenue in Selbyville. More than 150 volunteers are expected that day to pack 10,000 boxes for a family…
Read MoreSuperior Court Approves Mountaire Wastewater Settlement
The Delaware Superior Court approved a comprehensive $65 million settlement agreement today between Mountaire and a group of neighbors to resolve all remaining issues related to the 2017 upset that occurred at its wastewater treatment plant in Millsboro. Attorneys in the case reached the agreement last December, but it wasn’t final until the court approved.…
Read More‘Christmas For Thousands’ Will Feed About 3,000 Families
About 3,000 meals will be on their way to families in need after a day of packing at Mountaire Farms’ Selbyville plant Monday in support of “Christmas for Thousands.” The food drive followed up on the chicken company’s Thanksgiving for Thousands initiative. Volunteers packed 3,000 boxes that contained a Mountaire Farms roaster chicken, corn, yams,…
Read MoreMountaire fires back at union lawsuit over coronavirus working conditions
Mountaire Farms is firing back, issuing a statement in response to a federal lawsuit over working conditions during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic filed by the United Food & Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 27 union. “The UFCW is ignoring the voice of the very members they are supposed to represent and in a desperate attempt to…
Read MoreMountaire hit with federal lawsuit by UFCW union over coronavirus working conditions
United Food & Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 27, which represents nearly 1,000 poultry workers at Mountaire Farms, filed federal charges against the company for unfair labor practices. The charges allege that Mountaire Farms management violated federal labor law by (1) forcing workers represented by the union to attend captive employee meetings conducted without regard to…
Read MoreMountaire donates chicken to hospital employees on Delmarva
Mountaire Farms is donating more than 44,000 pounds of chicken to employees at Nanticoke Memorial Hospital in Seaford and Peninsula Regional Medical Center in Salisbury. Trucks will bring cases of chicken to Nanticoke on Thursday and to Peninsula on Wednesday. Employees will each get a 10-pound bag of fresh chicken to take home to their…
Read MoreMountaire settles one of two lawsuits over wastewater violations in Millsboro
Mountaire Farms has reached a settlement with one of two class-action lawsuits over complaints that the company’s plant contaminated local drinking water in Millsboro. Over a hundred people connected to the lawsuit were able to reach a settlement, officials from Jacobs & Crumplar, P.A. and Nidel & Nace, PLLC announced on Thursday. Residents wells and…
Read MoreVirginia man seriously injured in industrial accident at Mountaire in Millsboro
Delaware State Police are investigating an industrial accident at Mountaire Farms in Millsboro that seriously injured a Virginia man. According to Delaware State Police, the incident occurred around 2:30 p.m., Sunday as a 58-year-old Melfa, Virginia man was at the location to assist with the renovation of a building on the Mountaire Complex. The man…
Read MoreDNREC Accepting Written Public Comment on Agreement & Proposed Consent Decree between DNREC & Mountaire Farms in Millsboro
On Dec.13, 2019, the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control (DNREC) entered into an Agreement and [Proposed] Consent Decree with Mountaire Farms of Delaware, Inc., to resolve spray irrigation and land application permit violations cited by DNREC in a Nov. 2, 2017 Notice of Violation (NOV). On Feb. 1, 2020, DNREC will publish a…
Read MoreMountaire Farms first in the nation to become One Health Certified
Mountaire Farms has become the first chicken company in the United States to become approved in One Health Certified™, a new comprehensive animal care program that is verified by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. One Health Certified™ focuses on five core areas of animal production: disease prevention, veterinary care, responsible antibiotic use, animal welfare, and…
Read MoreDNREC Orders Mountaire Farms to Clean Up Wastewater at Millsboro Facility
The Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control says they have been notified of the accidental release of partially treated wastewater at Mountaire Farms of Delaware’s poultry processing facility in Millsboro. Mountaire Farms said they discovered the release at 5 a.m. on Wednesday, which resulted in the discharge of between 750,000 and 1 million…
Read MoreMountaire Reviewing Hoosier Street Closure Options In Selbyville
RELEASE FROM MOUNTAIRE FARMS: At the request of the Selbyville Town Council, Mountaire Farms has been reviewing options for traffic flow on Hoosier Street, where the company’s processing plant is located. Although the company has been following the same process for decades, the town has raised concerns about live haul trucks backing across Hoosier Street…
Read MoreDonation from Mountaire Farms to Repair Selbyville Roadway
Mountaire Farms is donating $210,000 towards the cost of improvements to Railroad Avenue in Selbyville. The roadway has been closed since March after a metal culvert developed rust issues in 2015 – but only temporary repairs were done at the time. It’s estimated that the cost to make the repairs is about $395,000 – the…
Read MoreSecond Lawsuit Filed Against Mountaire Farms
A second complaint has been filed on behalf of multiple plaintiffs against Moutaire Farms in Millsboro. Similar to the class action suit filed earlier this month, residents in the vicinity of the poultry processing plant have been living with air and water pollution issues since 2000, when Mountaire bought the company. Residents wells and water…
Read MoreClass Action Lawsuit Filed Today Against Mountaire Farms
A class action lawsuit has been filed today against Mountaire Farms today alleging negligence, and recklessness among other things as the poultry processor in Millsboro continues to come under fire from neighbors who claim wastewater from its plant has polluted their wells. Lawyers for around 700 plaintiffs say the company has violated wastewater permits for…
Read MoreDNREC & Mountaire Enter into Consent Decree Over Violations at Millsboro Plant
DNREC has filed a complaint in State Superior Court against Mountaire Farms. The complaint requests civil penalties for the poultry company’s violations of its spray and land application permits at the Millsboro facility. It calls for Mountaire to make short-term corrective measures, long-term system upgrades at the plant as well as environmental mitigation. The complaint…
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