Tyson supervisors allegedly had covid betting pool

woolfe9998

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If all the bullet point allegations described there are proven, the company could get hit with punitive damages. Wow.

And also this:

Casey reportedly referred to COVID-19 as the “glorified flu” and told workers not to worry about it because “it’s not a big deal” and “everyone is going to get it.”

Gee, I wonder where he got that idea from. Hmm.
 
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Zorba

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And this is why we can't allow Mitch to put in liability waivers. They will try to claim it is so you can't sue a company trying their best, but it is actually so companies don't have to try at all.
 

UNCjigga

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Done with their products forever!
Not sure if this was a joke or for real... but I’m gonna go with joke and lol.

If for real... your best (only?) route to avoiding Tyson is becoming a vegetarian.
 

ch33zw1z

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Good thing the trump admin moved to shield meat conglomerates from liability. A real man of the people
 
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snoopy7548

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Instead of being a piece of shit, why don’t you post such information, dickhead?


It's really not hard to avoid Tyson; if you don't eat processed garbage, you're good...

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IBP is huge in it's own right. Sam's Club and Costco meat counter is almost entirely IBP. Steaks, ribs, pork chops, ect. It's not just processed food.
 

ch33zw1z

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IBP is huge in it's own right. Sam's Club and Costco meat counter is almost entirely IBP. Steaks, ribs, pork chops, ect. It's not just processed food.

Yep, an excellent point. I think there's 6-7 major regional meat producers that control the US meat market. When you buy meat at a grocery store or costco, bj's, etc...it's almost 100% you're getting it from one of those major producers.

Edit: it's also why the supply chain failed in the spring. These operations are highly centralized for efficiency, but that leaves them exposed to problems when there's shifts in the supply chain
 

ponyo

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IBP is huge in it's own right. Sam's Club and Costco meat counter is almost entirely IBP. Steaks, ribs, pork chops, ect. It's not just processed food.
Yup. Tyson, JBS, Cargill, and National Beef control over 80% of all processed beef in the US. You can avoid Tyson but you really have to work to avoid them.

Plus, Trump gave them lawsuit liability protection to keep the meat packing plants open so I don't think people can sue them.

Honestly, this is not something I'm outraged over.
 

ch33zw1z

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Yup. Tyson, JBS, Cargill, and National Beef control over 80% of all processed beef in the US. You can avoid Tyson but you really have to work to avoid them.

Plus, Trump gave them lawsuit liability protection to keep the meat packing plants open so I don't think people can sue them.

Honestly, this is not something I'm outraged over.

I'm not happy that we shit on workers, enjoy a friendly wager about it, and provide protections for the corporations shitting on workers. But hey, that's corporate welfare for ya.
 

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Instead of being a piece of shit, why don’t you post such information, dickhead?

Because that would make him useful, and/or at least partially informed. Neither are adjectives that can be used to describe the piece of shit. ;)
 
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I'm not happy that we shit on workers, enjoy a friendly wager about it, and provide protections for the corporations shitting on workers. But hey, that's corporate welfare for ya.

bingo. it's not that having workers in food processing plant is bad. it's the completely fucking over of them, and providing them little to no protection, and reveling in their plight that is abhorrent.
 

ponyo

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bingo. it's not that having workers in food processing plant is bad. it's the completely fucking over of them, and providing them little to no protection, and reveling in their plight that is abhorrent.
We're not living in utopia. Meat packing work is extremely hard, super dangerous, and probably among the top worst jobs out there in ratio to work/pay. It's why no one wants to work there and they have to use illegals and offer visa resident sponsorships to get workers. It's pretty much impossible to give them protection given their work environment. They work side to side in crazy conditions. None of you could last a day working there. Every place has their share of shitty managers. I'm sure meat packing plants have higher percentages of shitty managers than elsewhere. But what's your alternative?
 

Fenixgoon

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We're not living in utopia. Meat packing work is extremely hard, super dangerous, and probably among the top worst jobs out there in ratio to work/pay. It's why no one wants to work there and they have to use illegals and offer visa resident sponsorships to get workers. It's pretty much impossible to give them protection given their work environment. They work side to side in crazy conditions. None of you could last a day working there. Every place has their share of shitty managers. I'm sure meat packing plants have higher percentages of shitty managers than elsewhere. But what's your alternative?

a) have federal government enforce work requirements
b) additional regulations of meatpacking plants
c) have chicken breast cost more than $1.99/lb so meatpacking workers get paid more.
c-1) and/or, massive corporations could not be giant assholes and take all that profit and reinvest it in workers to keep them happy, healthy, and economically secure.
 

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We're not living in utopia. Meat packing work is extremely hard, super dangerous, and probably among the top worst jobs out there in ratio to work/pay. It's why no one wants to work there and they have to use illegals and offer visa resident sponsorships to get workers. It's pretty much impossible to give them protection given their work environment. They work side to side in crazy conditions. None of you could last a day working there. Every place has their share of shitty managers. I'm sure meat packing plants have higher percentages of shitty managers than elsewhere. But what's your alternative?
There was a time when those were primarily union jobs with better working conditions and pay. We've prioritized cheap meat and profits over everything else.
 

ponyo

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a) have federal government enforce work requirements
b) additional regulations of meatpacking plants
c) have chicken breast cost more than $1.99/lb so meatpacking workers get paid more.
c-1) and/or, massive corporations could not be giant assholes and take all that profit and reinvest it in workers to keep them happy, healthy, and economically secure.
All sound nice but you're going to have to dismantle the entire system in order to do that. We allowed the industry to consolidate into few giant companies. So the government will need to break it up. No one in Washington has the balls to do that.