Article 52YPE 'We're modern slaves': How meat plant workers became the new frontline in Covid-19 war

'We're modern slaves': How meat plant workers became the new frontline in Covid-19 war

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Oliver Laughland in New Orleans and Amanda Holpuch
from Environment | The Guardian on (#52YPE)

Workers interviewed by the Guardian describe pattern of alleged negligence at plants run by some of America's largest food manufacturers

News of the first Covid-19 death at the Tyson Foods poultry plant in Camilla, south-west Georgia, spread slowly.

It was like they were keeping a secret," said Tara Williams, a 47-year-old worker at the plant, as she described her account of management's response to the death of her colleague Elose Willis. It took them about two weeks to just put a picture up, to acknowledge she had died."

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