Tyson Foods

Tyson Foods, Inc. {{nyse|TSN}} is a multinational corporation based in Springdale, Arkansas, that operates in the food industry. The company is the world?s largest processor and marketer of chicken, beef, and pork, and annually exports the largest percentage of beef out of the United States. With 2004 sales of $26.4 billion, Tyson Foods is the second-largest food company in the Fortune 500. The company makes a wide variety of protein-based and prepared food products at its 123 food processing plants. Tyson Foods has approximately 114,000 employees, who work at more than 300 facilities and offices in 26 states and 80 countries.

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Multinational corporation - Springdale - Arkansas - Food - Industry - Company - World - Chicken - Beef - Pork - United States - Fortune 500 - Protein - Food processing - Employee

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In September 2005, thirteen African American workers at a Tyson Foods poultry plant in Ashland, Alabama filed a discrimination lawsuit against the company. The lawsuit brought allegations of discrimination over several years, including a "Whites only" sign on a bathroom door and the use of racial slurs and other racist comments.

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September - 2005 - African American - Poultry - Ashland - Alabama - Discrimination - Racial slurs - Racist

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