Nearly all the meat and poultry workers I interviewed for the report identified production speed as the biggest factor making their job dangerous. Human Rights Watch documented alarmingly high rates of serious injury and chronic illness among meatpacking workers, and called on the USDA to stop pursuing this rule which at the time was not yet in effect and other policies that increase work speeds in meat and poultry plants. We also described concerns raised by workers’ rights advocates about the failure of the agency’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) to adequately consider the effects that eliminating line speed limits would have on workers.
Punitive Attendance Policies Fueled COVID-19 Outbreaks in Meatpacking Plants
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Transcripts for MSNBC The Last Word With Lawrence ODonnell 20200508 02:46:15
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i want to let you hear directly from eduardo. hall county has changed just because of the demographics, like i was saying earlier. as my age group is growing, a lot of people that are in my age range you re the son upof immigran. yes. your parents came here to work in the poultry industry. yes, they did. they migrated here and that s what brought them here is the poultry industry. and a lot of my counterparts are in the same position. a lot of their parents came and are worked in poultry plants and a lot of them went to school and now are working americans. have you ever seen a presidential candidate come through here? here in gainesville? yeah. oh, no. no, i have not. do you think it s gonna happen? would you urge them to? yes, absolutely. i mean, we have a pretty large population and it s growing. and so i think i think outside of the cities is where you have to reach. i feel like the atlanta metro, the democrats have a lot of them in the bag. especially,
only 20 were made to remain working at the poultry plants. we did call ph foods and they said no comment, hung up the phone on our nbc news team. and i want to stress that this is a double whammy for many of these families. because many of them had spouses, partners, brothers and sisters, swept up in the raids. and now the other half were let go of this poultry plant yesterday. and it really paints a picture, yasmin of the way at least this one plant behaved in the aftermath of the raid and also the employment practices at some of these places. in this case, ph foods specifically. how many individuals felt comfortable even returning to work after that raid? reporter: listen, the desperation that i saw on many of their faces, yasmin, most of them have two, three kids, kids in schools. they have been working at this plant for, again, 12 years. one of them working for 17 years.