Betting Pool? Tyson Managers Bet on How Many Workers Would Get COVID. Advocates Call It Grim Pattern

[@OriginalBernieBro]

And this is why we shouldn’t tie healthcare to employment. Medicare for ALL!

[@RocketmanRockyMatrix]

No

[@RocketmanRockyMatrix]

They get quarantine pay.

[@What-Why-When]

Oops - doesn’t surprise me .... all the truth will one day be revealed

[@leoquest1975]

Damn right. If my tax dollars can fund things I don’t need, then my tax dollars can fund my own healthcare. Medicare for ALL! I’m tired of the United States acting like a “sh*t hole” country by not having medicare for all like other advanced countries. I thought we were supposed to be the best country.🤷‍♂️

[@SWPG]

Folks, Please Stock Up Now, Start your Prepper Pantry ASAP. Love and Light, Shalom. HOOAH

[@Marxist2]

What we should demand is Medicare For ALL!

[@dane4243]

These people are working with a food product and no masks..? Absolutely disgusting, Tyson!!

[@smuuthbrane7029]

Probably stock footage. Doubtful Tyson is letting journalists into the plant floor right now.

[@srgreeniii]

Local church had 5 cases and close for the month telling everyone to isolate. Local meat packing plant had 38 cases and are now hiring for 38 open positions.

[@shultzb00]

Stop the cruelty, be healthier, help fight climate crises in a big way -- GO VEGAN

[@chachaguillotine187]

Utterly despicable.

[@brandonharris8111]

Tyson foods does not care about its workers. All they care about is money. All they could care about is money. They need to put these managers in jail.

[@RocketmanRockyMatrix]

The employees get quarantine pay.

[@brandonharris8111]

@@RocketmanRockyMatrix they do not get quarantine pay.

[@brandonharris8111]

@@RocketmanRockyMatrix we need Socialized medicine for all.

[@lunchwagondavis9983]

@@RocketmanRockyMatrix They don't even get quarantine!

[@leynight7534]

Early 1990's Tyson foods had almost all American workers giving them a good wage and benefits. By the end of 1990's it was mainly foreign immigrants working for them and paying a low wage and took away some benefits. There were several years we never got a yearly wage and took away benefits such as the Christmas bonus they gave to employees.

[@rodneynelson7874]

First rule of business: Maximization of profit through minimization of expenses. Working people are expenses and therefore expendable.

[@cynthialangley7338]

Workers are not expendable. We have laws about safety in the workplace. We must use the law to fight these criminals that want to push us back to the early 1900's ala upton sinclair's the jungle.

[@rodneynelson7874]

@@cynthialangley7338 I have worked for wages and always foundways to save the company money from my ideas being implemented. My reward. Every one of tried to fire me. The first rule of business was from a business instructor at college in the first lecture. I also believe that working people are not expendable but that is not the way capitalism works.

[@lunchwagondavis9983]

It does no good to talk like mistreating people is some unavoidable part of doing business. This video describes awful behavior that, if it isn't illegal, damn sure ought to be and, either way, it's up to us to put a stop to it.

[@tiffanygonsalves2709]

Another reason why I don’t buy their products. I don’t buy Purdue either.

[@shellydurunna]

Same here

[@isang4432]

One of the reasons I decided to not eat factory meat. Untill I can find locally sourced humanely-raised meat, I'll stick to a plant based diet.

[@bluzcompany2293]

I won't purchase any Tyson products for the rest of my life ...

[@adammtroutman]

The issue is you probably still do and don’t know it. These mega-companies have unreal reach

[@smuuthbrane7029]

Good luck with that. Tyson is unavoidable. Most restaurants and fast food joints use there products. They also have so many brands you probably wouldn't realize your buying their products.

[@shultzb00]

@@smuuthbrane7029 Fight this abuse and people and animals, be healthier, help fight climate crises in a big way -- GO VEGAN

[@tmc6799]

If it has "tyson" on the package, no I haven't bought their product for years. BUT many of our food providers use this a-hole company for their store brand.

[@joesolobraincloud]

Hey Tyson: Stop treating your human workers like they are the meat by-products that are your products.

[@shultzb00]

Stop the cruelty, be healthier, help fight climate crises in a big way -- GO VEGAN

[@lunchwagondavis9983]

@@andrewzcolvin Even greedy, sadistic Tyson assholes know people are generally expected to treat their own kind better than that and, theoretically, they can be shamed out of what they're doing. If shame doesn't work, we can ratchet things up!

[@johnorosz7477]

The family of a former meatpacker who died from COVID-19 alleges in a lawsuit that managers at a Tyson Foods plant in Iowa knew working conditions would result in illness, and even placed bets on how many workers would be infected. The family of Isidro Fernandez, who died in April, says the plant manager set up a winner-take-all betting pool for supervisors and managers to wager on coronavirus infections. Since the start of the pandemic, at least six workers have died and more than 1,000 tested positive for COVID-19 at the Iowa facility. Tyson Foods has suspended the managers involved in the alleged betting scheme, but worker rights advocates say it is further evidence of abuse and exploitation in the meat industry. "These companies are treating them like animals. They're treating them as disposable," says Magaly Licolli, executive director of Venceremos, an advocacy group for poultry plant workers.

[@erinmich5425]

Boycott Tyson. I know we’re in a pandemic but we need to help ourselves. Sue these companies.

[@nonyabizness.original]

easy to do when you do not eat meat.

[@lunchwagondavis9983]

It's still pretty easy to do even if you still eat chicken!

[@edwardroche2480]

You don't need to sue them, just stop buying products from virus spreading corporations. Corporations are piles of money and nothing more. The Profit they made off of your beans.

[@aatt3209]

I will not purchase tyson meat of any sort, never have and never will.

[@shultzb00]

Kill these horrible corporations!!! Nobody needs meat!!! GO VEGAN!!! Stop the cruelty, be healthier, fight climate crises.

[@judykinsman3258]

And yet Trump supporters still won’t believe that this is what happens when you have no regulations.

[@andiamador7156]

Right. He said he would do away with two regulations for any new regulation....and his fans cheered. They have been cheering for getting poisoned and screwed over since Reagan. Trump arbitrarily and haphazardly (or for favors to donor class supporters) doing away with the things that keep people from getting sick and/or dying in food production and other product production, doing away with rules that keep them safe or paid properly on the job, doing away with rules and regulations that cut down on pollution in their neighborhoods, the air, soil, and water (But he SAID he wanted clean air and water, so that's good enough. Words and or magic means are good enough for them). Just trust the people who will kill you for an extra dollar in profit to do the right things, which may cost them an extra dollar, without any rules. Rules and regulations are for his voters and working Americans, not for the rulers and profiteers. Some people don't get beat down enough on the job and don't deserve to make enough to live, and some people don't have enough extra billions.

[@yahwehvii6059]

They’d just chalk it up as the price of freedom.

[@MCJSA]

Not only Trump supporters believe this. Anti-labor sentiment runs deep in America. Chomsky said in an interview that there was a war in America between Capital and labor and Capital won. American workers are among the least well represented, and the least protected of any in the developed world.

[@lunchwagondavis9983]

@@MCJSA I think anti labor sentiment is a decidedly right wing thing. But their faux populist propaganda did a good job of poisoning people's minds against unions and worker solidarity. They've fought universal healthcare the same way, warning it would be a nightmare from the USSR _and_ a giveaway to insurance companies, and, of course, "death panels" (run by _Hillary Clinton!_ ) It's no wonder so many people "hated" Obamacare even in 2016. That's changed now that repubs, exposing their insane worship of Trump, have demonstrated how dangerous and malevolent they are. It's important to remember where these fucked up ideas come from, who really believes them and to stay on our guard against them.

[@kimk2635]

I try and tell them that regulations are laws that perfect us, laws that people not corporations have fought very hard to get passed. Trump supporters have proven that the brainwashing works.

[@danmarquez3971]

The lack of human empathy aligns with the lack of animal empathy.

[@min2oly]

This attitude thrives in the trump admin, keep an eye on your friends who are out of the closet with this behavior. they will all go into hiding soon, but they still exist!!!!

[@adriennereed2202]

This is sick

[@313moneyteamp3]

I'm from Michigan and I remember seeing an ad for a job that paid bonuses for not missing any days, this was in June, I wonder how many people got covid there.

[@camelopardalis84]

There was a case of a guy who was a higher-up/big boss of a company. He had a child with some medical problem which meant that he couldn't afford to catch a cold or whatever while on the job and bring it home and possibly infect his child. So he ordered his employees to stay home when they are sick and as soon as and as long as they are sick, even a little bit. They had to be completely well to not have to go home and to be allowed to come back. This led to there being fewer sick days in total in that company. The workers stopped infecting each other all the time.

[@zandale7418]

While Trump is on the golf course. That is pathetic

[@brianjacobsen5762]

Have a betting pool how many managers Supervisors. Will get there ass kicked in the parking lot at the end of shift.

[@rhondamoritz2565]

Tyson needs to interact and start protecting their employees now. I hope they are listening to this program listening to Magaly Licolli they are part of our front line workers.

[@ttrons2]

We need unions back. Ever since Reagan and the other conservatives of the time. Modern neo liberals are just riding along with it

[@PetitePorchPerformances]

Let’s talk. As celebrations take place around the world for democracy the US has passed some devastating milestones - nearly 200,000 COVID-19 infections a day and 257,000 deaths. For many months some Americans have resisted wearing protective masks because they, "Take away freedom." Is this really about taking away freedoms? We are a country founded on the compassionate rule of law. We have seat belt laws and second-hand smoke laws. These are just two small examples of laws enacted to protect us when we cannot protect ourselves and each other. When functioning properly our representatives in government have the ability, as defined by constitutions, charters, etc., to do those things we cannot do all by ourselves. This may include building highways, providing K-12 education and let's not forget protecting us from deadly forest fires, air pollutants and faulty medical devises. Governors, legislators and judges, in addition to the media, are working as best as they can, as quickly as they can and with the best available public health information to keep all of us safe; individually we do not have the collective expertise, human and financial resources to manage these challenges. If they need to do this legally by decree, executive order or other provisions allowed them during emergencies then they are doing their jobs. Although most people are doing the best they can to save lives there are some powerful few who are literally killing people. Take Trump and his super spreader events. A Stanford University study found his rallies have killed 700 people and infected 30,000. Columbia University published a study recently on how 130,000-210,000 lives could have been saved if the Trump administration and his devotees had not politicized science a pandemic that has infected over 53 million and killed 1,300,000 world-wide - so far. Approximately 40% of the infected are asymptomatic and never know they may be spreading COVID according to the CDC. There is good news. The US government may start distributing a vaccine by the end of the year. It will go to the most vulnerable populations first including front line workers. It does take weeks after the first inoculation for the vaccine to take full effect and more than one booster shot may be necessary. No one knows the duration of immunity for anyone who has recovered from Coronavirus or from any particular vaccine. Pfizer vaccine showed 90% immunity but only for seven days. More needs to be understood. Perhaps the singular greatest problem with regard to vaccines is that too many people have been dissuaded from even getting vaccinated at all. If that is the case, it will prolong moving forward precipitously. It is possible we may be wearing masks well through 2021. Our best line of defense remains masks, social distancing, etc. By taking these basic precautions the University of Washington projects we can save over 65,000 lives by March 2021. Remember, this virus is about 8X deadlier than the 2019 flu and is the third leading cause of death in the US only behind heart disease and cancer. Please fact-check this information yourself. Facing the truth is empowering, freeing. The sooner the more people accept reality, the sooner we can recover together as a country - grieve those we have loved and lost - and collectively address other urgent concerns. One last thing - we are fortunate. Do the people resisting wearing a mask really have no understanding of what is true loss of your freedoms? Have we learned nothing from history: slavery, disenfranchisement, imprisonment in jails, ghettos and concentration camps, inscription into armies, forced marriage, starvation... Over 85,000 children (under five) in Yemen have died since 2015 directly because of US foreign policy. Currently, 16 million more Yemen children, women and men face starvation but we can still save them by providing immediate emergency assistance with our International allies. We just have to care enough about their freedom, their literal right to life. I’d like to believe we are capable of understanding false equivalences of facial coverings and the right to life, freedom from extreme suffering. This may not be what we have expected but it is nothing new, not really. And we each have superpowers - our infinite capacity for creative adaptation and a little thing called love. - Please feel free to share this post. Take care, stay safe out there and thank you.

[@RocketmanRockyMatrix]

Peru has the highest deaths.

[@RocketmanRockyMatrix]

Only 6% of the 200k deaths actually died from Wuhanvirus.

[@PetitePorchPerformances]

​@@RocketmanRockyMatrix Incorrect - COVID-19 deaths include anyone who, if not for Coronavirus, would still be alive. The number of deaths currently reported are considered an undercount by epidemiologists based on the excessive death rate from the previous year - about a 60,000 discrepancy. There is a lack of consistent reporting standards in the US that should be corrected by the next administration so that we have a better understanding of the death toll. Also, you fail to account for morbidity rates - considerable pain, suffering and for all too many permanent disability.

[@rickychang2893]

Well said 👍

[@motoarg5988]

Workers mistreat animals, managers mistreat workers... Surprise, surprise

[@banjoc222]

If you can treat non-human sentient beings as commodities, it’s not a huge leap from treating humans you believe are “below” you the same. Remember that the meat and dairy industries are why we’re in this pandemic to begin with, and it’s coverage is nonexistent in mainstream media. It’s not just “unsanitary” Asian wet markets (lest we forget the 1918 pandemic that originated in a Kansas factory chicken farm (just like Tyson). We’re playing Russian roulette every time we come in contact with and exploit animals. Domestic or otherwise.

[@sproutbliss]

🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌

[@SMABEM]

Another reason to be vegan.

[@SMABEM]

@Harim Abif actually it was 2 genetic mutations that caused us to become "human" if you will. One was when we started to develop multiple copies of the amylase gene, this made us efficient at converting starches into digestible sugars. Humans are really most adept at eating cooked starches, yams, tubers, grains and legumes. The other adaptation was when we stopped synthesizing Neu5Gc. At this point all mammalian meat became more inflamitory to consume. Both these adaptations made more suited to a plant based diet. The true human diet.

[@SMABEM]

@Harim Abif Meat played a role in human development. But it isn't as significant as cooking, and the afore mentioned genetic mutations. Hey we all learn together in this great conversation. The meat industry relies on certain fallacies to keep it afloat.

[@sproutbliss]

@ Matt Bryan 🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌

[@tylerhackner9731]

Awful

[@daemonvelaryon5617]

I was working at a food manufacturer but they allowed people to come in sick so I quit and got a work from home job. These people do not care if you live or die.

[@cynthialangley7338]

F'ing evil!!! Sue the sh*t out of these horrible monsters. Justice now!!!

[@pontevedra660]

What is truly appalling is that people are still eating 'other' beings!!!

[@nonyabizness.original]

do you suppose it ever occurred to them that THEY were plant employees?

[@camelopardalis84]

Maybe they (felt like) they were able to keep their distance.

[@dennismiller5725]

The employees may not have healthcare, but what has happened to OSHA?

[@nebulousvoid]

Disregulated

[@Orion-fp4km]

They should all be charged! Charges against Humanity!

[@MSPUKIMOLIELIE]

I have a doc. When my dad was working hams, he was written up one day Bec he was over productive. They knew how many hams he devine's, by the collection of patellas at end of day.

[@saulgoodman7223]

Ok, so the law jailed Mike Vick for betting on dogs fighting... let's see what happens here , wait let me grab my popcorn

[@TwoHawksHunting]

This type of behavior takes malicious forethought. These men are very vile. They have no regard for human life and yet they have been granted positions of power over the life and death of the line workers. The whole incident is unconscionable.

[@reubenmorris487]

Stop eating animals!

[@Krogzaxants]

Like any other company.. Are people really shocked ? Things like this happens everywere really.

[@KK-bg8iq]

It’s telling that she keeps using the phrase “treating them like animals.” So many people don’t understand that hierarchies are the issue- they complain about parts, while failing to recognize that the overall system is the cause if the ills they seek to change.

[@ernestoa.1438]

We who care about the workers of Tyson should immediately stop buying Tyson meats.. I hope everyone will get on this so we can protest against Tyson for the way of treating its workers.

[@louiscena4094]

I will NEVER buy a tyson brand again ! ! NEVER !

[@MSPUKIMOLIELIE]

There's ppl at this same co who had accidents where half their hand got shredded by a machine or whatever, And the injured employee goes to d hospital and the work continues, so who knows whose fingers we r eating in our ground meat.

[@kimk2635]

Why didn't they protect their workers?

[@richardmayger2716]

Unionize Tyson

[@DebberaThompson]

unbelievible, and shame shame shame on tyson

[@AudioPervert1]

Why not ... Saudia princes bet on children tied to running camels ... American butchers bet on the meat chopping the meat ... This is nothing new ...

[@johnd1685]

Another reason too add on to the reasons I do not eat meat and try not to by corporate crap

[@leynight7534]

Tysons talks about safety unless it cost them money. They turn a blind eye to OSHA violations if it cost them a lot of money to correct.

[@mp5249]

Yep. I can believe it. Iowa "nice" is an absolute lie. Don't ever move here. It is horrid.

[@mininoturbusiness2286]

CCP like rules in the company...?!? Did it come with the meat or did they infect it so it would be spreaded into the food supply?

[@GermanLeftist]

I wouldn't be surprised if Clemens Tönnies did the same here in Germany with his employees. We know that meat packaging plants are hot spots and Tönnies is one of the biggest pieces of shit in Germany. I certainly wouldn't put it past him.

[@kjmax1068]

And it isnt even healthy food on that conveyor belt - all coated in breadcrumbs. Yuck. To be deep fried I expect. 🤨

[@Dot-Dot-Dash]

Horrible! Evil and I am going to give up meat now and Tyson had always been a bad, bad company!

[@phatmantv]

Well, boycotting Tyson foods now.

[@michelleburkholder2547]

If I had seen this 3 weeks ago I wouldn't have bought that 3 lb pack of hamburger. Boycott

[@juliogarcia8646]

Extremely slickening!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@naivedays5421]

If they ain't fucking with the chickens they're fucking with real people.

[@tedlloyd4477]

To the managers the workers are nothing more than moving meat.

[@jerryswallow]

COVID, MAN MADE, AND CAN BE RELEASED BY ANYONE TO ANYWHERE...

[@grazianop2706]

Betting on cases of COVID under your control is sick even for capitalism.

[@ArthurGlover]

Where is OSHA when all this is going on?

[@xSirDudex]

I'd be more upset at the disgusting appearance of that chicken rolling off and assembly line. Let's talk about that!

[@longtriplonghorn5766]

That's just how fucked up Waterloo Iowa is

[@JulieTobin-Ruszczyk]

Stop buying from super meat producers

[@bongofury5924]

Oh well, it beats working in a cocaine lab in the middle of a Columbian jungle.

[@rocketsurgeon5758]

So who won?

[@adrivlogzz]

That absolutely wrong information, I’m witness that what Tyson Foods is doing to protect every single team member, those $500 it was a thank you bonus for how hard everybody is working to feed the nation. Really sad what she is talking about because she doesn’t have base to be talking like Tyson Foods is what those people did it. Tyson is giving help to pay any medical bill that they could have during all this pandemic. Do the right. Tyson amazing care team y action taken to protect their worker.

[@jadedjane6241]

Are you expecting people that earn money from slaughtering animals to be compassionate? This would bot have happened in a vegan plant.

[@Alex-tp5qk]

All bets are off! It's time to rip what you sow.

[@thrdudeman420]

So who won the pool?

[@chcknpie04]

Ffs

[@vc62]

It seems like the difference between a concentration camp and a meatpacking plant is the part-time designation.

[@SWPG]

*Folks, Please Stock Up Now, Start your Prepper Pantry ASAP. Love and Light, Shalom. HOOAH*

[@SWPG]

@Harim Abif good luck, love and light

[@edwardroche2480]

Looks like it's time to start basting our chickens with hand sanitizer. Or boiling it in Lysol.

[@shultzb00]

Stop the cruelty, be healthier, help fight climate crises in a big way -- GO VEGAN

[@sproutbliss]

🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌

[@Marxist2]

I am a Latina woman & I could hardly understand what this woman was saying,

[@BlakaveliX]

You might need to clean your ears cause you she was speaking such that a nonlatinx person like me could understand every word she said.

[@TheVuduYuDu]

I'm not and I understood her just fine.

[@NN-cc6dd]

What a condescending comment. And the fact that this is what bothers you about this segment! She speaks just fine. Maybe you need an attitude check.

[@Marxist2]

@@TheVuduYuDu Good for You.

[@Marxist2]

@@BlakaveliX You might need to clean your mind. The organization she represents does excellent work for the workers they represent & I am sure Amy could have had someone else that could speak better English & not keep repeating the same adjectives over and over. Or she could interview actual workers.

[@motoarg5988]

Go vegan ✌️🌱

[@danfrancis4445]

BDS tyson

[@tigerbalm666]

Trumpoo prob got in on som of that action!

[@teebone2157]

Burn in hell tyson foods

[@RocketmanRockyMatrix]

Try to do more research on the subject. Don't be horribly one sided.

[@BlakaveliX]

Please enlighten us.

[@TheVuduYuDu]

You might be brand new to DN, otherwise you wouldn't have wrote that. Besides if the investigation does indeed prove a pattern of managerial abuse at this plant what else do you expect to see and hear on this subject? Are you saying that it is okay for managers to bet money on whether or not their workers get sick?

[@RocketmanRockyMatrix]

@L1 yes we need hear all sides.

[@SeaJay_Oceans]

Go Vegan ! :-)