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More Needs to Be Done to Protect Our Meat and Poultry Workers

In the Baltimore Sun: President Donald Trump invoked the Defense Production Act to order meat and poultry plants to continue operating despite COVID-19 outbreaks, exposing Maryland's poultry workers to enormous risks. Poultry processors haven't demonstrated they're able to keep workers safe and healthy, but they know that many of these low-wage workers will be forced to return. To top it all off, one of the president's goals with this order was to provide legal immunity to companies, so that they can't be sued by employees who are infected as a result of unsafe working conditions.

Type: Op-Eds (May 4, 2020)
PDF: Baltimore Sun Op-ed: More Needs to Be Done to Protect Our Meat and Poultry Workers
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Author(s): Matt Shudtz, Rachel Micah-Jones
Tags: Chesapeake worker safety Maryland poultry coronavirus
Categories: Consumer Protection Consumer Protection Workers' Rights Workers' Rights

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