INTRODUCTION The purpose of this report is to discuss my opinion on the question “Do I agree with the recommendations of Human Rights Watch (HRW) regarding workplace safety, particularly when Are these immigrant workers? ?” I will provide information on past and current safety issues applicable to the meatpacking industry and immigrant workers. I will discuss the HRW's recommendations. I will provide my opinion and take into account some utilitarian and deontological considerations, and I will conclude this report with a brief summary of the entire analysis, highlighting some of the most significant parts that the report containsHISTORY“In 1906, Upton Sinclair's novel "The Jungle" he discovered the harrowing conditions of America's meatpacking plants and began a transformative period in the nation's meat industry. The Pure Food and Drug Act and the Federal Meat Inspection Act were both passed in the same year, and labor organizations slowly began to improve the conditions under which the country's meatpackers worked. But some critics argue that the meat business in America has been in decline for decades and that the poor conditions found in slaughterhouses and packing plants today are often little better than those Sinclair described a century ago.” (PBS, 2006) From the 1930s to the 1980s, unions such as the United Packinghouse Workers of America organized workers and improved working conditions and wages. Meatpacking workers averaged nearly $20 an hour in the 1960s and 1970s. In the 1980s and 1990s, new competition formed that sought to undermine other union-based companies. Iowa Beef Processors (IBP) sought to work with slim profit margins, increase worker speed and productivity, and cut ... half the paper ...... S CITED1. Meat Packaging in the United States: Is There Still a “Jungle” Out There? (2006), retrieved June 4, 2007, from: http://www.pbs.org/now/shows/250/meat-packing.html2. Parker, Laura, USA just not work without immigrant labor, (July 2001), retrieved June 4, 2007, from: http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/july01/2001-07-23-immigrant. htm3. Rural Migration News, Immigrants in Midwestern Meatpacking, (October 1996), retrieved from: http://migration.ucdavis.edu/rmn/more.php?id=144_0_2_04. Schlosser, Eric, How to Make the Country's Most Dangerous Job Safer (January 2002), The Atlantic Monthly, USA, retrieved June 4, 2007 from: http://www.mcspotlight.org/media/press/mcds/theatlanticmontjan2002.html5 . HRW, Blood, Sweat and Fear-Workers Rights in US Meat and Poultry Plants, (January 2005), retrieved June 4, 2007 from: http://www.hrw.org/reports/2005/usa0105/1.htm#_Toc88546710