A tentative labor deal forestalled potentially damaging trade disruptions at three-dozen U.S. East Coast and Gulf of Mexico ports, with both sides in the talks crediting President-elect Donald Trump for clearing the way for them to hammer out a deal on automation.

Tentative labour deal heads off US port disruption; Trump credited

JBS U.S. units to adopt pandemic response plans after COVID outbreaks
Investigation finds that 269 workers in the U.S. died from outbreaks at packing plants
Reuters – Subsidiaries of meat processor JBS USA have agreed to implement infectious disease preparedness plans at seven U.S. plants, in the wake of a U.S. congressional report finding that the industry largely failed to prevent the spread of COVID-19 among workers. The agreement was announced in late May by the U.S. Occupational Safety and