WASHINGTON — Four meat and poultry associations have filed an Amici curiae brief with the U.S. Supreme Court urging the court to uphold a lower court decision that permitted collective bargaining agreements (CBA) to address compensation for clothes-changing time.
The associations include the American Meat Institute, National Chicken Council, National Turkey Federation and North American Meat Association.
The brief was filed in support of a decision by the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, as well as several other appellate courts, that "affirms the long-established customs, practices, and expressly bargained-for CBA provisions of Amici. . .