We live in an era when — sadly — news about the depravity of Big Business is rarely shocking anymore.

But then there’s Tyson Foods, Inc.

• Tyson is a multinational food processing corporation with revenue of over $42 billion last year.

• Some of the company’s meatpacking facilities have been hotspots — or, more accurately, infernos — during the coronavirus pandemic.

• Over 10,000 Tyson workers have contracted COVID-19.

• One of those workers was Isidro Fernandez, who died a few weeks after being exposed to the coronavirus on the job at a Tyson pork processing facility in Iowa.

• Isidro’s family is suing Tyson for failing to protect its employees.

• Public Citizen filed a brief in the case earlier this month supporting the right of the Fernandez family to have their case heard in a state court in Iowa.

Here’s why the case made headlines yesterday:

The family just updated their lawsuit with allegations that supervisors had a betting pool on how many of their employees would get infected with the coronavirus — even as those supervisors took precautions to protect themselves!

After four years of the corrupt, self-serving Donald Trump administration, we need government officials who will root out this kind of depraved, inhumane behavior by giant corporations.

Tell Joe Biden:

Commit right now to putting people in charge of the Department of Agriculture, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, and throughout your administration who are not connected to Big Business and who will protect everyday, hard-working Americans from corporate greed.

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- Robert Weissman, President of Public Citizen
 
 
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