how familiar are you with what happened at taylor farms, or at tanimura & antle?ot-- i'm not. tanimura, um, you know, i kn what they reported to, to thed media ba their statement. so i'm not, i don't know, like, what goes on within, you know, a company. weon't have intel in each and every case as to what exactly happened and why and how, or twhat did an employer do ir reaction. but where these come up and we learn about them, anat the end of day, we almost always learn, like, that a company where there is an issue, that an issue happened, we take it upon ourselves to engage them. >> altan: valadez said his sassociation issued earlyety protocols and is part of unique coalition with local officials, farmworker advocates, and doctors. but he said he's opposed to companies having to publicly disclose their covid cases. >> and i think it's important to see context and significance a important, becau it, it can distract from what the company employees, it can distract fro the fact that there's no such thing as zero-risk, and so something may happen, and the company may

>> r >> altan: rosa's cousins were living with her family and working for a large grower called tanimuraone of her cousins, mar, said that although the company gave em masks and gloves, it waso still difficult to de work and not get close. >> osmar: >> rosa: >> osmar: >> altan: osmar says he heard through co-workers that someone on his crew had tested positive for covid-19, s suthrvisors were not giving em any information about what was happening. >> osmar: >> altan: without information, his crew collectively decidedk, to stop working. osmar went home to self-quarantine, but he wasre y coming down with symptoms. ♪ >> rosa: : >> osmar t altan: osmar went to ge tested along with his wife and brother, who also worked at the company. >> osmar: >> altan: several other co-workers also tested positivey ere among the first farm workers in monterey county to be diagnosed with covid-19. >> rosa: >> altan: during this time, we were hearing that there were dozens of cases at tanimura & antle. so we wanted to talk to the company about the infections and what they were doing to protect rkers. but they