Friday, May 29, 2020

Alarming death toll in U.S. packing plants

Forty-four workers in United States meat-packing plants have died of COVID-19.

More than 3,000 have been sickened with the virus, says the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union.

It said today that companies, such as Tyson Foods and JBS USA, need to do more to protect workers.

Tyson closed its huge hog plant at Storm Lake, Iowa, on Thursday during testing of all employees for the disease. Many were refusing to work until the test results become available.