Advocacy groups call for more protections for meatpacking, food processing plant workers

Working too closely together to follow social distancing requirements, carpooling to work with people who are infected with the coronavirus, and reporting safety concerns to managers, only to have those concerns blown off — all complaints that immigrants', refugees' and workers’ advocacy groups say they’ve recently received from people working in Iowa’s food processing plants.

Working too closely together to follow social distancing requirements, carpooling to work with people who are infected with the coronavirus, and reporting safety concerns to managers, only to have those concerns blown off — all complaints that immigrants', refugees' and workers’ advocacy groups say they’ve recently received from people working in Iowa’s food processing plants.