Opinion | Samantha Gillison: 'More line workers will get sick and die, and more meatpacking plants will close. Things won't get better until there is the real political will to change how the meatpacking industry handles worker safety.' - NBCNewsTHINK
An industry that doesn't automatically, unquestioningly protect its workers from being fumigated with known toxic chemicals or losing limbs can hardly be expected to protect them from invisible pathogens. However, while line workers who inhale toxic chemicals may suffer from chronic health issues, they can still clock in. COVID-19, on the other hand, kills you or makes you so sick you can't work — which de facto shuts down the plants.
mass amounts of healthy, ready-for-market cattle, chickens and pigs, all while thousands of Americans wait in line at food banks. The solution — obviously — is to order everyone back to work and protect the meatpackers, like Tyson Foods, from legal liability for getting any of their workers sick. Enter the Trump administration and its nimble
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