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LULAC National President Meets With Tyson Foods CEO and Goes On-Site to Berry
Street Poultry Plant on Fact Finding Mission
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Nation’s Oldest and Largest Latino Civil Rights Organization Goes Inside Arkansas
Meat Processing Facility to See Worker Conditions

WASHINGTON - The League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) today announced
that it held the first round of face-to-face talks with Tyson Foods as well as
completed a walk-through of the company’s facility in Springdale, Arkansas to see
what steps were being taken to protect worker safety amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

“The enemy here is the coronavirus,” says Domingo Garcia, National President of
LULAC. “We traveled to the headquarters of Tyson Foods to make it clear to the
company that nothing is more important to LULAC than worker safety. We went
inside one of their biggest plants in the country ourselves to observe and talk
to employees to find out what the company is doing to fight the virus that is
infecting Juan y Maria, our nation’s essential workers in the meatpacking
industry.”

By touring the Berry Street plant, LULAC was able to see the investment that
Tyson has been making to create a safe working environment for its employees, as
well as the efforts underway to protect the health and safety of its workers.

The LULAC team met with Noel White, CEO of Tyson Foods, who reviewed specific
operational actions taken by the company as COVID-19 began to sweep across the
United States. LULAC also learned of other changes being made in response to the
influx of new information about the virus. Garcia spoke with White about a series
of community demands centered around five areas of concern: regular free testing
of all workers for COVID-19, complete personal protection equipment, line speed
to labor adjustments, compensation for infected workers undergoing care, and
assistance to families who have lost loved ones to the coronavirus.

After evaluating the preexisting safety protocols, the LULAC team left feeling
optimistic about the success of those endeavors. Some of those standards were
closely related to the community demands outlined by Garcia, including screenings
upon plant entry, temperature checks for employees, ubiquitous in-language
signage, an obligatory mask policy, social distance marker placements, dedicated
cleaning for common areas, and hands-free water and sanitizer stations.

Furthermore, Tyson spoke to the LULAC team about their ongoing efforts to make
Tyson Foods’ plants safer. Some of those efforts involve COVID-19 onsite testing,
contact tracing and health support, research and development for superior
ventilated masks, over $100 million in bonus pay, hunger relief, and
infrastructure across Tyson plants, and cooperation with local health agencies
enabling Tyson to go beyond the CDC and OSHA’s recommended procedures.

“LULAC’s number one priority is taking every action we can to protect tens of
thousands of workers to the fullest extent possible with what we know about the
virus. It appears Tyson is making significant changes and investments to improve
worker safety and America’s food supply. LULAC will work with Tyson Foods and
other meat processing companies to help save as many people as possible from
COVID-19. We are going to do what LULAC has done for 91 years: get the job done."

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About LULAC
The League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) is the nation’s largest and
oldest civil rights volunteer-based organization that empowers Hispanic Americans
and builds strong Latino communities. Headquartered in Washington, DC, with 1,000
councils around the United States and Puerto Rico, LULAC’s programs, services and
advocacy address the most important issues for Latinos, meeting critical needs of
today and the future. For more information, visit www.LULAC.org [ [link removed] ] .







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