Missouri Smithfield Plant Sued for Unsafe, Unsanitary Working Conditions Amid COVID-19 Pandemic
A union that represents workers at a Smithfield Foods plant Milan, MO, have filed a lawsuit to “secure basic protective equipment and protocol changes that will stop the spread of COVID-19 in the plant and surrounding community.”
The lawsuit, filed on April 23rd, is the first of its kind seeking to secure injunctive relief to protect frontline workers from the coronavirus pandemic. The suit was filed by the local nonprofit union Rural Community Workers Alliance and ‘Jane Doe’, an anonymous worker who is identified only as “a veteran of the facility’s cut floor who fears contracting the disease in the plant and spreading it in the community.”