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dying to feed the public activists say that poultry workers in the united states of being put at unnecessary risk during a pandemic hi anthony ok today on the stream we discussed the hardships these laborers face and ask who will help them you can join in the stream as always you can tweet us at a.j. stream and also jumping to the live comments on the you changed chat and be part of the day shy. 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 lives to feed america i love the management there they care. more about the piece of meat going in the tree then they care about their team members in there it became very evident this year. if you could conjure a perfect incubator for a virus like over at 19 i mean packing plant as a great. bit or none of this ear. no no this never leave that get out of my sandals.

joining us to discuss the difficulties many poultry workers are currently facing in virginia bailey who you just saw in that clip she is a former poaching plant employee in arkansas. she's the co-founder and director of sense of m. us food chain a worker's alliance and in washington d.c. . he's an attorney and allegedly direct public justice project he also is featured in the 4 documentary hello everybody is really good to have you i have a theory michaeli 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 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 them

made big 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 them it coming in we saw we knew that these workers were very vulnerable to copy main teen because of the long live 3 speed archery each shoes that they have working with this chemicals and so when we saw the outbreaks happening across the country we know that he was just a matter of time of experiencing these here and it's 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 it's almost impossible for borger's the rafters theirs and so that's why many of them got sick because the

company was not protecting them they don't have basic leave they don't have any of the sensual protections that the older workers may have these workers were lacking in that so that's why help it meant team kit so har in this in this in this industry kesha what was that like that moment when covert started spreading through the party plants way you lived and you knew workers and you initially were working there as beginning a covert 19 what was it 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 everyone's 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 i've ever experience what would be stereotyped out poaching processing. one of those particular conditions like that that well get to come to luck. the answer is basically everything would be a terrible thing 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 masks 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 didn't even need math until 2 months into the pandemic and these companies just don't 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 i'd feel sick i have a fever i have a cough aching she was told oh no no it's our cold to 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 what's going on in these plants during the pandemic i want to show you some right here my laptop this is the title of today's show and it did work to keep food on americans' time homeless i want you to have someone else that i spoke to was i was doing reporting on the $4000.00 stock a month change and expand those 1st few months so we're looking at march april what it was like to what what is the what with all talent have a. you know one thing her father you know haven't seen yet. not the least amount of compact put out the african program are carried out of. nor he hasn't used them pass her off on assassin vomit being part of samson. to be the home of. the what have. norm koger all become

a couple have already. acacia let me put this to you did well to keep food on america's typo stop question the answer was want at salute me yes why is that even acceptable that it's acceptable it's surely unacceptable because it just makes us feel like they're our lives are disposable and we are essential but we're not disposable and i knew one of the poetry workers for one of our plants here she was from the produce i knew her she was a very nice lady and she got along with everybody she didn't 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 or didn't think to emphasize is key says absolutely right there workers died this was not necessary to keep food on america's table there's this theory 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 putte profits for these companies over these workers lives we had this was totally unnecessary for the american consumer. and also that company is really where work will slowly 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 companies and one of the things that workers were very best

brought up was the lack of transparency the company was not leaving them no or if they were at risk of being close to someone who got us that last if we saw a correlation or collaboration with the department of health that were not reporting cases they were not telling workers if they were a risk so a really full 2 workers were treated the friend then the rest of the workers from all their industries because they were going to food workers or and and let them know that they were at risk their plans would be forced to shut down and precisely that was why the plant you then want to shut down so they kept the information away from workers and that was why the companies purposely put our workers at risk of getting sick because they're going to know. that angers are working closely with people that were coming sickle way the every so get 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 day can you respond to that people need food so. there's 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 let's let's 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 line because they need to feed america they've got to produce all this chicken day. that there's absolutely no need for workers to be this close what can happen is that the lines can be slowed down and then workers can 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 you're hearing about the need for food is entirely a creation of one of the industry and its marketing side and to the trumpet ministration that this was an effort by the trumpet ministration to justify a piece of a gift to the industry that it was going to issue an order saying that the

repacking 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 it's important to know that a the government does not have the power it can't actually force the packing plant to stay open and b that's a myth we have tons of food whether early in what's known as cold storage and that can be accessed the amount that's being processed that actually less need right now because we're exporting less because the rest of the world also experience like a pandemic this is all a myth that meant and 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. i'm going to i'm going to be really honest here are come back to my. kitchen just a 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 i'm going to share that with you in response to our saying will you come and be 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 didn't 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 richard's are taken with this one through to put your scanner if there fever is 100 year or greater didn't nurse takes another temporary skid if that fever is still 100 when you are greater the team are very simple this area is where a team members are also provided their required facial coverings their masks for

their work every single day and also they can take one 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 you also 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 sheriff injuring this program officer captcha the entire statement with you but something that jumped out of us at top priority is the health and safety of our because we've implemented a house to protective measures at a facilities that meet or exceed c.d.c. centers for disease control and which is the department for united states guidance for preventing 19 say types of food to say we are proudly doing this for the

kaisha you think what. i mean they might be doing that now but they should have started that when the 1st case was reported in clay it that way and after a little bit of heat and attention is drawn about say becomes are. but you're going to start you're 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 nighty never hit with does that mean what does no operations will. they're 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 they're checking down. the line speeds have raised they have been working 6 days

a week. it's just like nothing ever happened i'm 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 government they've been able to log on to reviews mephisto chose workers' comp for years they've been able to increase the line speed in the union that and then make their line speed increased to $174.00 births per minute and that was quietly done by the us the a in this company's and saw in so yeah i think that all everything that you are saying tell you sooner was put in the lot of money in a p.r. campaign because we were organized you know 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 cami impaired to the record inside the plant everything is slow 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 well the company has been lying about how they are protecting workers is pretty much protecting themselves because they see if those workers are sacrificial this force of war and these workers been working in the hole opened them big just to keep the profits running and that's what we saw that in in april of this years 830000 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 is kind of finds it as well as for. a.j. labs put together a digital version of the documentary and picked up some really big points here so in $29000.00 the u.s. produced at least $9000000000.00 chickens which still cry $100000000000.00 this is a massive industry is it possible day where so much money at stake to make any improvements for the workers the what cars are actually doing the uk taking the rest can i interject real quick them yet in the what you say i would just like to say when those numbers right there i believe it was fiscal year 19 tyson can't 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 didn't 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 story 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 their selves 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 mother's caretaker and i'm her only child so just imagine carrying that way now and on top of me also being a single parent of 2 children he said no i'm just thinking half out where we go from here because people like yourself open eyes and luckily it's 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 big economic package for. one thing he's thinking positively about the poaching because of what may all happen to them 7 isn't 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 u.s.

isn't gay members have been left out of most of the relief provided by congress over the last 8 months in 2021 the next industry shrink 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 to keep are safe and who will keep doing the work told us rebuild stronger and better for. tallman bring some positivity since risk on the function he said and there is hope and this is what needs to happen don't well i think what you're hearing throughout this entire discussion is to your question about is this political or is it corporate the answer is yes it's 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 aren't captured we represent another group of workers this time in

pennsylvania who wrote a letter to osha what used referred to as the apartment of waiver a part for workers and they said we don't we're not being given masks we're not being allowed to space on the line we are in constant fear of our repeat there was already an outbreak work in 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 they're still allowed to bring the disks and maybe it's not possible to space and why was the regional office thinking that way because when the c.d.c. wrote it the original report on what meat packing plant should do it gave some very clear guidelines based work give masks but then the companies intervened and got c.d.c. to pull back that were based in a sense right now at the end of the chevys this conversation will go on we will we will have to i promise and in a sentence i have full. i had to be hopeful because we need to get better so

i thought about it. but who did do your side dave kesha michaeli thank you so much also lots of fights happening on you true for you there saying thank you for bringing the voice of the voiceless america's forgotten about this story months ago as kesha said no one is disposable keesha your words are resonating magalie your words are resonating dave thank you very much indeed all right this is time to wrap up this conversation that we're having on t.v. but i'm taking it over on instagram so i'm certain minutes if you're watching the live show on the a.j. stream instagram account i'm going to be chatting to suzanne adelaide she's the code director for the food chain workers alliance if you're not afraid of all right now just go to the a.j. string instagram account click on the t.v. button and you'll find that conversation stay or that 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 is there adult com also running on al-jazeera t.v. . business week.

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