Meat plant workers have a message for you (opinion)
CNNEditor’s Note: Alice Driver is a freelance journalist whose work focuses on migration, human rights and gender equality. Alice Driver Luis_Garvan I’ve spent the past few months interviewing essential workers in the southern United States, primarily in Arkansas, who are instrumental to feeding this country. In an executive order signed in April, President Donald Trump deemed the workers, mostly immigrants and many undocumented, supplying our food to be essential, but he has left Covid-19 safety measures in the hands of companies, some of which have resisted transparency on issues as basic as informing workers of the number of Covid-19 infections at their work site. LM Otero/AP/FILE But workers at meat processing plants, including Simmons, described having little or no social distancing on the job, simply because enforcing social distancing would require slowing down production. A spokesman for Grant’s employer, Tyson Foods, told the New York Times that the company was taking workers’ temperatures before they entered and were implementing social distancing measures.
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