Source: Aaron Sanchez-Guerra, GREENSBORO NEWS & RECORD, 11/7/20

A number of organizations gathered in the North Carolina capitol late last week to once again ask state officials to mandate rigorous protections for workers in the meat-processing and agricultural industries whose jobs put them at risk during the COVID-19 pandemic. The North Carolina Farmworker Advocacy Network, a coalition of groups calling for Gov. Roy Cooper's office and the North Carolina Department of Labor to protect workers, also held a vigil for the largely Latino immigrant essential workers who died due to COVID-19 contracted while on the job.

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