Their lawsuit, filed in federal court in Colorado in November, 2022, alleged that 11 meat-packers conspired to fix wages, when to offer wages and to refuse to hire workers from other packers in the conspiracy.
Agri Beef, Agri-Stats Inc. and Weber, Meng, Sahi were are also included in the lawsuit, alleging they collected data from individual companies and then shared it with others.
There is no indication in the lawsuit that JBS and Cargill colluded on wages in Canada, although they are the dominant beef packers here.
They are named in the lawsuit in the U.S. and the others are American Food Group, Hormel Foods, Tyson Foods Inc., National Beef, Perdue
Farms Smithfield, Seaboard Corp., Triumph Foods.
Don't hold your breath waiting for the Canadian Competition Bureau to investigate this or any other price-fixing cases in the Canadian food industry.
It's not for a lack of evidence, as in the egg-grading industry, but either incompetence or unwillingness.
