Dear John,

Farmworkers, food workers, and farmers need your support during the COVID-19
pandemic. They risk their health and safety every day to ensure the country
continues to function during this crisis.

Food system workers are essential. But they’re not provided with the necessary
resources to protect themselves. And they’re underpaid for their labor -- even
as cases of the virus in food production sites increase.

Congress must put a stop to this utter disregard for these workers’ health and
wellbeing. It must act now to provide emergency protections for food workers.
But your elected officials will only act if they hear from constituents like
you.

Tell Congress to enforce protection of all food chain workers!
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Food processing plants across the nation are becoming hotbeds of contagion. At
Cargill’s Pennsylvania plant, one out of every six workers tested positive for
COVID-19. And more than half of the positive COVID-19 cases in South Dakota came
from the Smithfield pork processing plant.

Despite risking their health and safety every day, food workers receive poverty
wages and don’t receive adequate compensation or safety standards. What’s more,
many of these workers are immigrants -- making it even harder for them to access
services and protections.

This is unacceptable. Congress must mandate premium pay for all food workers.
They also must ensure frontline workers have access to masks, gloves, and other
protective equipment, handwashing stations, and are able to maintain at least
six feet distance between workers. And it must require employers to record and
report coronavirus cases among workers and protect employees who report
violations.

We need your help to shine a spotlight on the atrocities being committed against
food workers and force Congress to act. The future of our food system depends on
it.

Tell Congress to act now to protect essential workers in our food system.
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The people suffering from some of the most egregious impacts from our
industrialized agriculture system are also those who are among the hardest hit
by the coronavirus.

Without these essential workers, the country would cease to function. Food
workers are some of the heroes of this pandemic -- it’s well past time they be
treated as such. Will you push Congress to put the health and safety of essential workers first?

Stand with food workers: Tell Congress to protect their health and safety!
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Standing with you,
Dana Perls
Food and agriculture program manager,
Friends of the Earth

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