October 13, 2025
Summary by Bloomberg AI
- Agri Stats Inc. agreed to stop sharing plant-level wage data in a settlement with workers in a long-running wage suppression suit.
- The lawsuit led to poultry processing giants paying a combined $398 million to resolve the claims, with Agri Stats being the last plaintiff to settle claims from low-wage poultry processing workers.
- Agri Stats will stop sharing plant-level wage data for workers involved in processing chicken and turkey, according to a settlement agreement filed Oct. 10 in the US District Court for the District of Maryland.
Agri Stats Inc. agreed to stop sharing plant-level wage data in a settlement with workers in a long-running wage suppression suit that saw some of the largest US poultry processors pay nearly $400 million.
Fort Wayne, Ind.-based Agri Stats is the last plaintiff to settle claims from low-wage poultry processing workers in class action litigation originally filed in 2019. The lawsuit led to poultry processing giants such as Perdue Farms Inc., Tyson Foods Inc., and Butterball LLC pay a combined $398 million to resolve the claims.
Agri Stats will stop sharing plant-level wage data for workers involved in processing chicken and turkey, according to a settlement agreement filed Oct. 10 in the US District Court for the District of Maryland.
Plaintiffs “believe that with the removal of these plant-level fields, recipients of future Agri Stats reports will be unable to reconstruct the labor fields that processor Defendants previously used to suppress their workers’ wages,” the settlement agreement said.
. . . The plaintiffs are represented by firms including Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP, Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC, and Handley Farah & Anderson PLLC
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