Source: Aaron Sanchez-Guerra, NEWS & OBSERVER, 9/18/20


After Gov. Roy Cooper stopped short of issuing an executive order to protect the agricultural workforce on fields and in meat processing plants in the COVID-19 pandemic, several organizations on Friday turned their demands to the North Carolina Department of Labor. After initially telling Latino advocacy groups he would issue an executive order, Cooper quietly backed out, telling members of the Farmworker Advocacy Network that opposition from state labor and agriculture officials would harm his ability to enforce the order.

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