'This pandemic has exposed the historical racial inequities of our health, immigration, and labor/employment systems, which means that immigrants and other workers of color are impacted by COVID19 on a greater scale.' –MarielenaNILC
to follow new safety guidelines), but there has been little guidance as to what precautions have been enacted to protect these newly classified essential workers., or companies are testing all of a plant's workers before the plant is reopened,” Douglas says. “[But] those efforts are not universal and some workers still report that they don't have adequate personal protective equipment to safely perform their jobs.
The United Food and Commercial Workers , a union that represents thousands of workers at U.S. meat plants, hasthat reopening plants too early and forcing workers back onto the production lines could spell disaster. “America’s meatpacking workers are putting their lives on the line every day to make sure our families have the food they need during this pandemic,” UFCW international president Marc Perrone said in a.
As the pandemic continues to rage, social distancing remains in effect, and many other businesses and services across the country remain closed, vulnerable workers are being packed shoulder to shoulder in many of these facilities to satisfy America’s appetites. The sacrifice of these workers’ well-being in the name of profit and convenience shows a shocking disregard for human life and lays bare the systemic racism and cold indifference characteristic of the Trump regime.
“I’m angry at how I was treated because they didn’t want to believe that I was sick. They just told me, ‘You have a cold,’” Guadalupe Páez, a Wisconsin meat-processing plant worker, who said he recently recovered from COVID-19, said on thePáez said he wants his coworkers and other workers to know "that we have to raise our voices so that our concerns are heard.
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