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Exciting news! Today marks the launch of the #Justice4TysonWorkers campaign! Check out the letter signed by many great organizations. And please use the hashtag to push Tyson to finally do the right thing. https://foe.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Sign-on-Letter-to-Tyson-Shareholders-COVID-19-Worker-Safety-7.6.2020.pdf
Important petition from @VenceremosAR. Tyson needs to stop incentivizing working while sick, and start allowing employees to protect themselves from #covid19. #Justice4TysonWorkers https://sign.moveon.org/petitions/tell-tyson-workers-deserve-paid-sick-leave-now
The #Justice4TysonWorkers campaign has several common-sense requests, which a decent company would have done from the very beginning of the #covid19 outbreak. But billionaire John Tyson didn't want to spend the money to protect workers. https://www.forbes.com/profile/john-tyson/#5eb6099d74af
First request: Provide paid leave for the duration of quarantine for all workers who test positive for COVID-19 and those workers who were in close contact with the infected individual. #Justice4TysonWorkers
#2: Provide personal protective equipment to all workers including new respirators on the production floor at the beginning of every shift, with appropriate fit testing and training on proper donning and doffing procedures, in languages workers understand #Justice4TysonWorkers
#3: Ensure workers can practice physical distancing and slow down line speeds for poultry, swine, and cattle, regardless of whether a waiver has been granted to operate at higher slaughter speeds #Justice4TysonWorkers
#4: Ensure daily testing is available for workers and their communities #Justice4TysonWorkers
#5: Be transparent and publicly disclose all COVID-19 cases. #Justice4TysonWorkers
#6: Stop all lobbying efforts pressuring the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)to grant line speed waivers in all species + halt all applications to the USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service for higher speed slaughter waivers #Justice4TysonWorkers
#7: Respect workers’ rights to freedom of association, to organize a union and to bargain collectively, free from retaliation, as recognized by the UN through its International Labor Organization (ILO) Conventions. #Justice4TysonWorkers
#8: Implement systems & policies to both protect workers from retaliation & encourage workplace safety & risk reporting, in order to ensure that all workers report any workplace safety lapses or symptoms of illness. #Justice4TysonWorkers
#9: Eliminate the point system associated with attendance that results in unfairly firing workers who miss a certain number of shifts, including those who are legitimately afraid to go back to work because of unsafe working conditions due to COVID-19. #Justice4TysonWorkers
Don't those seem like pretty minimal, obvious steps @TysonFoods could take if they really prioritize their workers' safety (as they claim)? If you think so, let @TysonFoodsCEO @JohnRandalTyson know! #Justice4TysonWorkers
You can also comment on their facebook page or send them a facebook message: https://www.facebook.com/pg/TysonFoods/posts/?ref=page_internal #Justice4TysonWorkers
