Dying for your pork chops

We have a Tyson cattle packing house 40 miles from my home. They are following the recommendations that are also in North Carolina. A couple of weeks ago when the numbers started rising at the facility the State of Nebraska sent Doctors to tour the plant and give recommendations of what more needed done. Many were the same Doctors at the Med Center that were instrumental in the Ebola outbreak. 

The industry is pretty difficult to stop the spread but I think they are doing what they can. And no, they are not fired for not showing up!

As usual, Kevin's lying rants have been debunked. Stay tuned for the next one, and the next one, and the next one....

Actually you don't need to know much. There is a legal principle known as Strict Liability which is in place in all 50 states, in federal law, and came to us from English Common Law. In a nutshell, it says you are responsible for any harm you do whether you meant to do it or not.

So if workers are welcomed back to work and suffer or die as a result of things that should have been foreseeable, they or their relatives should have the right to receive damages for pain and suffering and wrongful death. Period.

Republicans have announced they want to release such companies from liability in these cases. You know, the pro-death party.

People like Stalker are pro-death. Business is more important than life.

Glad to hear that Tyson, at least, is taking some responsibility. Most meat plants aren't. Workers at the vast majority of such plants WILL be fired if they stay home. The meat plants in Greeley, Sioux Falls, and outside of OKC are examples of that. Tyson should be praised if they have changed the way they operate and its employees no longer have to risk their lives.

People like Kevin are in mental institutions. For their and other peoples health.

I used to sell the Logansport, Indiana Tyson hog processing plant $600,000 worth of stuff per year.  If anyone ever wants an explaination how the "kill room" works, it's quite intesting. As a preferred vendor, I got great deals on ribs by the 20# box............one day after the kill, but unfortunately already frozen.

They butcher some 12,000 hogs per day over two eight hour shifts.  Thats one pig every 4.8 seconds.

Sooie!

Moving this up, suspecting few take the trouble to read it.  This isn't facebook or youtube, but policies/guidelines developed between the CDC and OSHA, updated from SARS Covid-2 to address Covid-19.  OSHA is under the Department of Labor.  I'll assume this is written for every meat-poultry processing plant everywhere.  Whether management of every such plant follows these guideline I could not know (though Kevin seems to), I have 'been there' when OSHA made scheduled and unscheduled visits to my shop and has enforcement power.  I pasted an abstraction pertaining to guidelines for handling employee illness and absenteeism.

Monitor and respond to absenteeism at the workplace. Implement plans to continue essential business functions in cases of higher than usual absenteeism.

Review leave and incentivize policies:

• Analyze sick leave policies and consider modifying them to make sure that ill workers are not in the workplace. Make sure that employees are aware of and understand these policies.
• Analyze any incentive programs and consider modifying them, if warranted, so that employees are not penalized for taking sick leave if they have COVID-19.
• Additional flexibilities might include giving advances on future sick leave and allowing employees to donate sick leave to each other.

And if the employers violate the terms of the above, Republicans want to excuse them from any civil or criminal liability.

You might as well print it on toilet paper. Wait, that's not right. Toilet paper is useful.

Let's just close all of our food plants, as Kevin wants.  After all, if it saves one life from corona, it's worth it to Kevin.

Does anyone REALLY know what Kevin wants? Secondly, who really cares?