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Dying to feed the public activists say that poultry workers in the United States are being put at unnecessary risk during a pandemic ok today on the string we discussed the hardships laborers face and ask who helped them you can join the stream as always you can tweet us at a. J. Stream and also jumping to the live comments on the chat and be part of todays show. The corona virus has put thousands of poultry processing workers across the United States in a horrible predicament risk their health by continuing to work or lose their job a few months into the pandemic i joined up with out as it was 4 lines to find out what was happening to these essential workers risking their life to feed america. The management their care more about me in the tree care about their team members became very evident. If you could conjure a perfect incubator for a virus like over at 19 i mean packing plant as a great. No no this. Joining us to discuss the difficulties many workers are currently facing in virginia. Who you just saw in that clip she is a former plant. In arkansas. Shes the cause. Founder and director of friends of animals thats a food chain a Workers Alliance and in washington d. C. Dave marash skin hes an attorney and allegedly direct public justice for you project also is featured in the 4 documentary how everybody is really good to have you i have a theory magalie most people have no idea what goes on in a poultry Processing Plant how would you like to interact in them. Well i mean work you mean process in plan is definitely a very that anderson difficult job for workers here in america lost the workers come from a latino married can last of them a refugee in asian or black communities that work in this plan so prior to the and theyre made the conditions were all really difficult for most of this workers have been organized in workers are on the amount of chemicals used in this plant so whenever we saw that and then we come in we saw we knew that these workers were very vulnerable to copy main teen because of the long live 3 speed actually each shoes that they have placed by working with this chemicals and so when we saw the outbreaks happening across the country we knew that he was just a matter of time of experience in these here and its because of their lack of the workers are not allowed to practice social distancing workers were shorted to shoulder to shoulder as we saw in the documentary any its so much impossible for workers the rafters there is and so thats why many of them got sick because the company was not protecting them they dont have basic leave they dont have any of the sensual protections that the Older Workers may have these workers were lacking in that so thats why help it meant team kit so hard in this industry in this industry keesha what was that like that moment when covert started spreading through the post you can sway you lived and you knew workers and you initially were working there as a beginning a covert 19 what was that like what did it feel like how freddy were here. It was very scary i must say and generally i have never felt like that working for tyson where i never felt like my safety was ever in fear or fear of my safety or at risk. And for our numbers skyrocket for this little area the way that they did it that was very alarming it was a fear that was set here that we never imagined and we all know this is our president at times but the fact that our numbers were rising higher than the higher Populated Areas in for jamia was was very very very scary in the nervousness just seeing the fear on everyones faces coming into work while i was still there before i took a stance to leave i had never felt anything like that and like i mentioned i have 5 Years Experience working with tyson and by far this year was the most fear for my safety having her experience doing what would be stably about poaching processing. More of those particular conditions like the welcome to come to luck. The answer is basically everything would be terrible to think about poultry processing during covert 19 as you know the video you showed highlighted these are really incubate or as for the spread that you have people working shoulder to shoulder in the hallway is on the line 8 hours a day if not more 6 days a week and it was months before they got man while the rest of the country was sheltering in place these people were going to work every day and putting their lives on the line they were told they didnt even need math until 2 months into the pandemic and these Companies Just dont have an interest in their employees we represent a family who during the 1st few months of the pandemic was working in a facility the mother in the family who worked at this facility went to the nurse who is not on the property and said id feel sick i have a fever i have a cough aching she was told oh no no its a cold you go back to the line go back to work she brought coded whole infected her daughter she her daughter was pregnant both ended up in the hospital the mother died at the daughter gave birth while she was on a ventilator b o c section and this is whats going on in these plants during a pandemic i want to show me some right here on my laptop this is the title of todays show and i did want to keep food on americans homeless i want you to have someone else that i spoke to was i was doing reporting on the 4000. 00 stock a month and i explained those 1st few months when looking at march april what it was like to walk what if what with all talent have a. You know one place the employer you know thing is probably. Not the list from our competitor called our program our career and our. More of yourself you see employers hire us but our staffs are all part of our beautiful part of service and care that to be the. New here the more people they have brought here. Ill have already. Acacia let me put this to you did work to keep food on americas table stop question the answer is what absolutely yes. Why is that even acceptable. Its unacceptable. Its truly unacceptable because it just makes us feel like there are lives are disposable and we are essential but were not disposable and i knew one of the poetry workers from one of our plants here she was from the produce i knew her she was a very nice lady got along with everybody she didnt have a bad bone in her body and that was devastating when i heard that she was still going to work carrying symptoms she already had preexisting conditions and just effect on how hearing that they treated her and right literally when she got off from work she died as soon as she got home. I am here for to thank to emphasize his kitchen is absolutely right the workers died this was not necessary to keep food on americas table theres that this period out there that we were about to experience a meat shortage we worked this we could have continued to have meat on the tables are going to continue to have other put on the table this was a decision to part profits pretties companies over these workers lives we had this was totally unnecessary for the american consumer. And also the company is really purposely expose workers to get say one of the things that we also experience here in arkansas and besides the stories all the stories are really similar by state and by companies and one of the things that workers were very best threat was the lack of transparency the company was not letting them know or if they were added ways of being close to someone who got to the boss that they have we saw a correlation all collaboration with the department of health that were not reporting cases they were not telling workers if they were at risk so on. Really well 2 workers were treated the friend and the rest of the workers from all other industries because they were going to food workers or and let them know that they were at risk their plans would be forced to shut down and precisely that is why they want to shut down so they can have the information away from workers and that is why Big Companies were bristly our workers at risk because they given no. Banters or working closely with people that werent coming away the every guess i want to put some of the comments happening on you changed to us and you can respond immediately to them so candice says i have no choice but to work as a single mother in a high risk environment because no one else will feed us my children beg me to stay home i have no choice candice is obviously a meat packing processor nina jones says on on you tube several people i know work at tyson there is no distancing the problem is people need food and they produce prices and those prices are going up etc de can you respond to that people need food so theres no social distancing because people need food i want to show people some of the undercover video that we got from arkansas or and this is how close people are working together so one of the workers there was really kind to us at 4 lines and took a big risk so lets lets play that video so we can see how closely people are working together dave is there a choice here do these workers have to put their life. On the wine maker for montesquieu of america ive got a professional honest guy that theres absolutely no need for workers to be this close what can happen is that the lines can be slowed down and then workers could be spaced apart for less meat goes through a supply and a given time the more workers can space because they have more room to make the cuts they have more room for to do their project without being close to someone else who needs to do the next step in the process say what youre hearing about the need for food its entirely a creation of one the industry and its marketing side and to the trumpet ministration that this was an effort by the trumpet ministration to justify a gift to the industry that it was going to issue an order saying that the meat packing plants were essential because food was at risk and the meat packing plants were going to be able to leverage that to try to keep workers in place its important to know that a the government does not have the power it cant actually force the packing plant to stay open and b thats a myth we have tons of food whether early in whats known as cold storage and that can be accessed the amount thats being processed there are actually less need right now because were exporting less because the rest of the world also experience like a pandemic this is all a myth thats meant to ensure that we keep on producing at the same levels so that companies can profit regardless of the impact on the workers who could be saved simply by some minor changes that would allow the production to continue while the workers could be say. Im going to be really really honest here are come back to my. Kitchen just might be really honest here it has been very difficult to get hold of either the lobbyists who work for the poultry industry or the companies themselves statements or totally ghosting we did get some statements from tyson foods and im going to share that with you in response to our saying we become a bit on this program but in the conversation as we were trying to make the documentary i had a back and forth of bergersen he works with p. R. For tyson food and eventually after weeks of trying to get an interview the interview didnt happen but i did find derek talking about the safety precautions that tyson foods is taking during covert 19 have a look this is from you chief. Before the start of every shift key members to richards are taken with this one answer to put your scanner if there fever is 120 or greater takes another tip if that fever is still 101 or greater than. This area is where our team members are also provided their required visual coverage their man asks for their work every single day and also they can take it from this area at the end of the day to go home as you go into the plant floor inside of our facilities you see there are some instances where social distancing is naturally occurring in other areas there are workstation dividers were team members are working closely together youll see the required use official coverings in some cases the plastic visors covering or team members face. So derek did send a very long statement for us to Share Program officer captcha the entire statement with you but something that jumped out at top priority is the health and safety of our workers and weve implemented a house to protective measures at a facilities that meet. Today is for Disease Control and which is the main but department for United States guidance for preventing 19 say tyson food to say we are proudly doing this for making sure he sank what. They might be doing that now but they should have started that when the 1st case was reported in each play it that way and after a little bit of heat and attention is drawing about state because. But youre going to start youre going to start doing this after the cases have already reached over at least 50 percent of the player population. And from my understanding currently tyson has gone right back to normal operations as if covert 19 never hit with does that mean what does no operations will. Theyre not doing any more testing or sight from my understanding as for the temperature checks some team members are still a little bit leery about their temperatures and how theyre checking down. The line speeds have raised they have been working 6 days a week. Oh its just like nothing ever happened im going to put this team ugly maria says the problem is workers in the us have 0 protections the deregulation frenzy of the trump of ministration has made this situation more precarious it is about politics or at least about the companies being so big so powerful they can do whatever they want. They meet companies have so much power in the go remember theyve been able to log on to reviews meth is such as workers comp for years theyve been able to increase the line speed in the union that and then make their line speed increased to 174 births per minute and that was quietly done by the us the a. M. B. Scum phonies and saw into yeah i think that all everything that you are saying tyson was put in a lot of money in a p. R. Campaign because we were organized in over 300. 00 workers in this process in plan were they made this video and they were lying and we know that whenever there is cameras or journalists commie impaired to to record inside the plant everything is low down everything is cleaned they pretty much as they age everything so they looked nice to people that are not really familiar to this so the company has been lying about how they are protecting workers is pretty much protecting themselves because they see if these workers are sacrificial this possible and these workers been working. To hold them then maybe just to keep the profits running and thats what we saw that in in april of this years 130000 pounds of meat were exported to china so they were never essentials to keep this so if so just to save make sure the people follow this export hate so notice. Even there when a Global Pandemic exports and that was something i really want to show you because this these kind of finds it as well as what i saw. A. J. Lapse put together a digital version of the documentary and picked out some really big points here so in 29000. 00 the u. S. Produced at least 19000000000. 00 chickens which still cry 100000000000. 00 this is a massive industry is it possible they were so much money at stake to make any improvements fo the workers the what cars are actually doing the uk taking the rest can i interject real quick them yet in the kitchen ahead what you say i would just like to say when those numbers right there i believe it was fiscal year 19 tyson can actually afford to put more Safety Measures in place for their team members if the fight if the top 5 executives for tyson if their salaries are grossing 35000000 combined there should be no excuse to why the bonuses that they gave out the team members back in april to make them satisfied and to make them keep coming to work they should have been taxed a lot of team members didnt even receive that 500. 00 bonus to only receive maybe half of it or quarter of it in the catch was you had to work 90 straight consecutive days in order to receive a bonus for working in a pandemic which is insane to me. And there are so many people not only put in ourselves in jeopardy going to work in a pandemic i was putting my mother in jeopardy working during the pandemic she was diagnosed with palmeri sarcoidosis the beginning of march and she had lost a total of 50 pounds at least and when her doctor told me hey if you keep continuing to go to work you cannot be your mothers caretaker and im her only child so just imagine carrying that way and on top of me also being a single parent of 2 children he said no im just thinking half out where we go from here because people like yourself open eyes and luckily its organizing davis playing in the law. To make Companies Make the change something that i really wanted to share with him and this is tom who is thinking about whenever there is the next economic package for. One thing hes thinking positively about the poaching because and what may all happen to them 7 isnt a top all together about 3 in 4 undocumented workers are actually in jobs the federal government itself recognizes as essential to the Critical Infrastructure of this country but despite this undocumented workers and even their us isnt gay members have been left out of most of the relief provided by congress for the last 8 months in 2021 the next administration and congress will have to enact a National Recovery package that protects American Families promote Public Health and get this economy back on track for that recovery to be as brain damaged and durable as it is today and as inclusive inevitable as it ought to be it has to include a back to citizenship for those individuals and their families who have done the work he perceives and who will keep doing the work thomas rebuild stronger and better for. Tom bring some positivity into this conversation he said and there is hope and this is what needs to happen. Well i think what youre hearing throughout this entire discussion is to your question about is this political or is it corporate the answer is yes its both and what we need to do is when that package gets passed we have to make sure that the agencies who are administering it are in capture we represent another group of workers this time in pennsylvania who wrote a letter to osha what you refer to as the apartment of labor party for workers and they said we dont were not being given masks were not being allowed just based on the why we are in constant fear of repeat there was already an outbreak were going constant fear of a repeat of an outbreak and they wrote to osha osha did nothing and why did osha do nothing because the Regional Office said well they do it there still are allowed to bring out 6 and maybe its not possible to space and why was the Regional Office thinking that way because when the c. D. C. Wrote its original report on what meat packing plant should do it gave some very clear guidelines work it masks but then the companies intervened and got c. D. C. To pull back that her death and the same price at the end of the chavez this conversation that will go on we will revisit it i promise well in a sentence full. I have to be hopeful because we need to go. Ahead about a. Day for. Michael thank you so much also lots of fights happening on you tube for you there saying thank you for bringing the voice of the voiceless americas forgotten about this story months ago as kiesha said no one is disposable keesha your words are resonating your words are resonating dave thank you very much indeed all right this is time to wrap up this conversation that were having on t. V. But im taking it over on instagram so in 13 minutes if youre watching the live show on the a. J. Stream Instagram Account im going to be chatting to suzanne hes the code director for the Food Chain Workers Alliance if youre not afraid of all right now just go to the a. J. String Instagram Account click on the id t. V. Button and youll find that conversation still there and then one more thing that i do definitely have to tell you and that is about the 4 lines document and we just put it up here on my laptop virus on the poultry line you can find it out easier adult also running on aljazeera t. V. Thanks for watching us see you next time. d for over 3 years in an egyptian prison so denied the right to a fair trial no charges have been brought against al jazeera correspondent saying this crime journalist. To demand my. Voice solidarity told to me journalist sign the petition. Busy. 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