Meatpackers drafted Trump order on meat plants during Covid-19

Pretty sure HN would be upset if an Executive Order related to tech was put out there without input from any tech people, no? Isn't that the original intent of lobbyists and expert opinion? Or is the complaint here about it the COVID-19 part? Or is it just "Trump did it so it's bad"?

My wife currently works for a large meat company, and there were absolutely huge staffing issues the entire time the larger unemployment checks were being sent out.

They had gigantic banners outside the plants with very large sign-on bonuses being advertised for a reason.

Almost everyone working in the plants are immigrants that live in large households. There’s a certain group of immigrants local to the area who all very much adopted wearing masks, but over the course of the pandemic I saw very few of them wearing them correctly.

At least in this producer’s case, I think a large number of the infections probably happened outside of work.

Industry writes laws that govern itself for it's own benefit... this is shocking! jk, this is normal.

Casual corruption. Yes, that's normal.

This is the instruction manual