Koch Foods Inks Deal to Settle Chicken Worker Wage-Fixing Case

Koch Foods Inc. reached an agreement in principle to settle antitrust claims it colluded to suppress workers’ wages at poultry processing plants and other facilities.

Worker plaintiffs and Koch filed a notice Tuesday in the US District Court for the District of Maryland that they reached the undisclosed deal in a long-standing case that accuses the nation’s largest chicken producers of conspiring to fix and depress the hourly wages and benefits paid to plant workers.

The agreement with Koch is subject to the drafting of a long-form settlement agreement. Plaintiffs will then move for preliminary approval of a proposed settlement ...