issue orders requiring essential workers to wear masks — and requiring employers to supply them — we can expect to see chains scramble to change their PPE policies and source equipment for their employees. If only more companies had listened to their workers’ pleas for protection from the beginning.Smithfield Foods is closing its pork processing plant in Sioux Falls, S.D.
[At least 41 grocery workers have died of COVID-19, with thousands more testing positive for the virus. [Amazon has stopped accepting new grocery delivery customers, instead putting them on a waitlist, as demand surges during this pandemic. [Samuel Adams launched a fund offering $1,000 grants to restaurant workers whose jobs have been impacted by coronavirus-related closures. [Seven people went to Santa Cruz for “essential” drinks, the worst-ever justification for gathering during a pandemic.