Meat plant workers to Trump: Employees aren't going to show up
Source: CNN
Meat processing plant workers are concerned about President Donald Trump's executive order that compels plants to remain open during the coronavirus pandemic. Some say they expect staff will refuse to come to work.
"All I know is, this is crazy to me, because I can't see all these people going back into work," said Donald, who works at Tyson's Waterloo, Iowa, facility. "I don't think people are going to go back in there."
On Tuesday, Trump signed the order after some companies, such as Tyson Foods, were considering only keeping 20% of their facilities open. The vast majority of processing plants could have shut down — which would have reduced processing capacity in the country by as much as 80%, an official familiar with the order told CNN.
"I just don't know how they're going to do it when there are people dying and getting really sick," said an employee of Tyson's Independence, Iowa, plant. "Who's to say people are even gonna show up to work?"
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/29/business/meat-processing-plant-workers-reaction-executive-order/index.html
This needs to be pushed to the forefront. These are workers in states that went for Trump in the last election. Their story, and the story of what Trump is doing to them now needs to be brought to the front of the national consciousness.
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Most of the workers at TYSON'S (formerly IBP) are immigrants--as is true all over the meat packing industry. Black Hawk county is usually reliably DEMOCRAT leaning in it's politics. Significant minority communities, (African American, Bosnian, Latino, etc.) Most have come here over the decades for work in either meat packing or farm equipment or other manufacturing--John Deere, Chamberlain, CASE, etc. Neighbor who works at TYSON waterloo plant informed me, that plant workers were tested this past weekend--with approx. 44% testing positive. Deaths have already occurred, more to follow sadly. Yea, to some, we are referred to with the same contemptuous tone which some used when describing the Vietnam War soldiers--(during the war) I'm of that age--it ended shortly b4 I was eligible for the draft--Big sigh of relief as you can imagine--no possible college deferment in the future so very glad it ended. But I don't agree with ANYONE being treated as expendable even if we are just; The Niggers, The Spics, and The Hics. (that's what we were called then. and I swear sometimes that's how we're viewed now!) We are all created EQUAL and should be treated as such. Those workers in those plants--some of whom I know--are the same as the workers in those plants when I worked those kinds of jobs. They have Lives, they Love their Families, They Love Their Kids, and Their Kids Love Them. I Hope they are given the chance to stay safe, and given the same opportunities I had. Period.
Based on what I see online from the Flu Klux Klan fighting for their freedumb:
A government official has no right to tell a business when it can and can't operate for a pandemic. It infringes on their Constitutional rights. Maga.
But....
Trump is a hero for signing an order forcing business to stay open during a pandemic. Maga.
I can barely get it out twice without tripping over it.
Credit goes to DU. I picked that up on a post here.
#NationalCovidTestingNow
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the hump going to send troops to their houses and haul them into work? 
