Settlements have been reached in a lawsuit that claims some beef and pork companies colluded in price-fixing measures to keep wages low for their beef and pork processing plant workers. The settlements total $202.7 million, according to a news release by the firms Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP, Handley Farah & Anderson PLLC and Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC.
Nearly two dozen companies are named in the lawsuit. Individuals who worked at the defendants’ beef or pork processing plants between 2000 and 2024 are eligible for payment from nine defendants that total $191.45 million.
Individuals who worked at the processing plants between 2014 and 2024 are eligible for payments from settlements with two additional defendants that total $11.25 million.
The lawsuit continues against Agri States Inc., Greater Omaha Packing Company, Smithfield Foods Inc. and Smithfield Packaged Meats Corporation.
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