I'm reading the financial statement filed by Northern Beef Packers president David Palmer in bankruptcy court on August 2. (Case 13-10118, Document 105). On July 12, Northern Beef Packers issued 226 hourly payroll checks totaling $72,014.70. On July 17, Northern…
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Scott Waltman offers this breakdown of all the help we taxpayers have given the now-bankrupt Northern Beef Packers in Aberdeen. Depending on how you count the dollars, Waltman's report shows that Pierre has given almost $5.8 million either directly to…
The South Dakota Department of Labor sent officials to Aberdeen Friday to meet with the 260 workers laid off by the state-boosted and bankrupt Northern Beef Packers slaughterhouse. It didn't go well: Northern Beef Packers still owes hundreds of workers…
An eager reader alerts us to worse news from Aberdeen: after failing to pay its workers on time last week, Northern Beef Packers has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. This big business failure is brought to you by Joop Bollen…
Northern Beef Packers laid off 108 of its Aberdeen workers last April. The remaining 300 or so are now having trouble getting their paychecks: Northern Beef Packers will delay paying its employees their wages this week because of financial difficulties.…
Rep. Kristi Noem is pretending that the "Working Families Flexibility Act" will help workers by allowing employers to offer employees comp time instead of extra pay for overtime. The bill is really about giving management (a.k.a., the corporate cronies who…
Spearfish High School held a career fair for the sophomores yesterday. The nice businesspeople who came to my classroom to hold forth about the real world said, among other things, that they see a big need in every field for…