Tyson, Smithfield, and JBS USA were among the companies whose chief executives urged then-Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue in an April 2020 phone call to “elevate the need for messaging about the importance of our workforce staying at work to the [president] or [vice president] level.” They also wanted the administration to stress to workers that “being afraid of Covid-19 is not a reason to quit your job and you are not eligible for unemployment compensation if you do.
Lawyers for Tyson also drew up a mock executive order. The one that Trump administration settled on, the report states, “adopted the themes and statutory directive laid out in Tyson’s draft.” The company’s draft order was firstAt least 269 employees of Tyson, Smithfield, JBS USA, Cargill, and National Beef died due to Covid-19, and more than 59,000 contracted the disease between March 2020 and February 2021, the report notes.
“Despite awareness of the high risks of coronavirus spread in their plants,” the report states, “meatpacking companies engaged in a concerted effort with Trump Administration political officials to insulate themselves from coronavirus-related oversight, to force workers to continue working in dangerous conditions, and to shield themselves from legal liability for any resulting worker illness or death.
Additionally, the report continues, companies complained about “pesky” health departments that stressed the need for coronavirus precautions, and in at least one instance sought to block one such department from addressing an outbreak.
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12WCV The Biden Administration, the CDC, and the FDA lied and told America that vaccines were not available until after Biden took office
12WCV Yep, sure they did. Misinformation here all. Where is the Ministry of Truth coming down on to banish misinformation. Oh that's right, they are lying about a right wing group, so it's allowed.
RSPolitics The Rolling Stone leftist propaganda machine is really having to reach for material. No wonder they only have 11 K followers. Sad.
This is old news to Maddow viewers. Thats why my freezer is full of fish
The first paragraph of your own article disproves this ‘click bait’ 😂 You have obvious collusion between multiple private/public agents of an industry, to convince an admin to make policy change… but you’d rather blame that one guy again 🙄
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