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Beyond the Ozarks

Tyson Meat Packers, Food Processors Press for Coronavirus Protection

KUAF | By Jacqueline Froelich

Published April 27, 2020 at 2:30 PM CDT

Venceremos Cofounder Magaly Licolli, center, stands at the gate of a Tyson meat packing facility waiting to deliver petitions signed by 170 workers inside.

The social justice group Venceremos recently tried to deliver petitions signed by nearly 200 line workers to the plant manager of a Tyson poultry slaughterhouse on Berry Street in Springdale. The petitioners are seeking comprehensive coronavirus workplace protections. Two days after the action, Tyson opened two Northwest Arkansas facilties, including the Berry Street plant, to show federal and state officials deployed COVID-19 protections.

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Jacqueline Froelich

Jacqueline Froelich is an investigative reporter and news producer for Ozarks at Large.

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