"The power imbalance between capital & labor in meatpacking long predates the pandemic." #PAMWA will help stop #BigMeat corporations like Tyson & Smithfield from exploiting & abusing their workers. An important piece by @tomphilpott for @MotherJones motherjones.com/food/2021/12/m…
@Public_Justice @tomphilpott @MotherJones “An October 27 report from the US House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis found that in plants run by the 5 biggest US meatpacking firms—JBS, Tyson, Smithfield, Cargill, & National Beef Packing Company—at least 59,000 workers tested positive for the virus” +
@Public_Justice @tomphilpott @MotherJones “during the first year of the pandemic, & at least 269 died. At several individual plants run by these multinational conglomerates, upward of 44% of the workforce tested positive in that period.” +
@Public_Justice @tomphilpott @MotherJones “‘The full extent of coronavirus infections & deaths at these meatpacking companies was likely much worse than these figures suggest’ because of incomplete data, the report added.”
@Public_Justice @tomphilpott @MotherJones “The outbreaks spilled out into surrounding communities as meatpacking plants emerged as prime vectors for spreading the virus into rural America.”