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Abused disabled Iowa turkey plant workers receive $240 million on EEOC claims.

The AP (5/2, Foley) reports a Federal jury awarded 32 mentally disabled Henry’s Turkey Service turkey processing plant workers “$240 million – the largest verdict in the 48-year history of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which sued on their behalf.” The defunct business probably can’t cover the $7.5 million in damages each man was awarded. Their employer, “which profited handsomely,” had “virtually enslaved” the men for years. The men were house in a “dilapidated, bug-infested bunkhouse,” didn’t receive needed medical care, and were paid 41-cents-an-hour while Henry’s “was being paid more than $500,000 per year” supplying the men for contract work. A version of this article ran in the New York Times (5/2, A12, Press, Subscription Publication, 1.68M). 

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