The vice president walked in soon afterward — without a mask — shortly after learning his press secretary had tested positive for COVID-19.
The plant was shut down for two weeks but reopened Thursday in time for Pence’s visit after Trump signed an executive order declaring meat processing plants essential operations.in Iowa. The cases are still on the rise, according to the state health department.
The men in the Pence roundtable who were instructed to remove their masks were American Farm Bureau Federation President Zippy Duvall, and CEOs Rodney McMullen of Kroger, Ron Cameron of Mountaire Farms, Ken Sullivan of Smithfield Foods and Noel White of Tyson. Sullivan called workers at meatpacking plants “heroes” at the roundtable. A worker and a nonprofit workers’ rights group last month filed aoperated by Smithfield, accusing the company of maintaining dangerous conditions.
The meatpackers union said in a statement that Pence, Perdue, the senators and governor should have worked a shift at a processing plant to experience the dangerous conditions.that our members and their fellow Iowans work under every day,” the United Food and Commercial Workers union said in a statement.
Tyson, Smithfield, Kroger, the American Farm Bureau Federation, and Pence did not respond to requests for comment from HuffPost about the removed face masks.Stay up to date with
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