Source: WUNC, 7/28/20

In April, a worker at Pilgrim's Pride poultry processing plant in Sanford called workplace safety regulators to complain that the plant wasn't notifying employees when other staffers tested positive for the coronavirus.  A few weeks later, a worker at a Smithfield Foods pork plant in Tar Heel called to report that the plant wouldn't allow workers to wear masks. In early July, a worker at Tyson Farms in Monroe reported that the meatpacking company had "reinstituted the point system for absences" making "employees feel that they are being forced to work, even when they feel sick."

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