The disposable US workforce: life as an 'essential' meatpacking plant worker

Workers are still waiting for reforms to an industry in which 60,000 got Covid and nearly 300 diedJose Tovar believes he can pinpoint the day he got Covid-19: it was 8 April 2020 and he was cutting chuck bone at a meatpacking plant in Cactus, a little town in the Texas panhandle.Cactus might be a small place, but if you regularly eat beef in the US, at one time or another, it very likely came from the JBS meatpacking plant here, where Tovar was one of its 3,000 workers. Continue reading...