NEW The pandemic persists inside America's meat plants and regulators are missing in action.

Regulators haven't issued even ONE job site requirement for how the meat industry should protect workers.

Nearly 100 workers are dead and 27,000 are sick.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-06-18/how-meat-plants-were-allowed-to-become-coronavirus-hot-spots?sref=JTuIXQSO

As the pandemic took hold, meat packers began offering attendance bonuses and even free high end meat to their workers who came in for shifts.

In April, the CDC told the industry to stop doing that.

It didn't. But the CDC can't do anything about it.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-06-18/how-meat-plants-were-allowed-to-become-coronavirus-hot-spots?sref=JTuIXQSO

When the Department of Labor finally showed up to investigate 3 deaths at a Kansas beef plant, the inspector stayed only for 90 minutes.

The plant had 100s of sick workers and 100s more in quarantine. It's still running, only 7% slower than usual.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-06-18/how-meat-plants-were-allowed-to-become-coronavirus-hot-spots?sref=JTuIXQSO

I will be reporting on the plight of meat workers all summer.

If you or a loved one work at a beef, pork or poultry plant, please get in touch:
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