Source: Travis Fain, WRAL, 10/2/20

 In mid-August, Gov. Roy Cooper told Latino advocacy groups he'd prepare an executive order to protect workers in North Carolina's fields and meat processing plants from coronavirus. That order was written, but never signed. The process foundered within weeks, when officials from the state Department of Labor told the Cooper administration they wouldn't enforce key elements in a draft order that they said went too far, exceeding the state's regulatory powers.

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