People of color make up 87 percent of meat-processing plant covid-19 cases. Worker groups allege that is a sign of racial discrimination.
of contracting the virus, and also more likely to suffer seriously from the illness than white people because of social inequities.
“They have always provided gloves,” he said through a translator. “And they recently provided masks, but it was already too late. There were people hired to make sure there is … social distancing, but they don’t really care for that, so it’s impossible.”He said he knows dozens of workers who have gotten sick as well as several who have been hospitalized and died. His said his mother, who works at Tyson’s Berry Street Plant in Springdale, Ark.
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