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The son of a deceased Tyson Foods employee is accusing the company of neglecting worker safety safety at its pork processing plant in Waterloo, Iowa.
Oscar Fernandez, son of Isidro Fernandez, this week filed a lawsuit uploaded by local news outlet KCCI accusing the company of "fraudulent misrepresentations, gross negligence, and incorrigible, willful and wanton disregard for worker safety." Isidro Fernandez died of complications from the novel coronavirus in April.
The complaint notes that at one point during the pandemic, managers and supervisors made cash bets on how many workers would contract COVID-19. The virus put enormous pressure on U.S. supply chains earlier this year, leading to temporary meat shortages in some areas.
"Defendant Tom Hart, the plant manager of the Waterloo facility, organized a cash buy-in, winner-take-all betting pool for supervisors and managers to wager how many employees would test positive for COVID-19," the suit reads.
Tyson Foods President and CEO Dan Banks, who is named as a defendant in the lawsuit, said in a Thursday statement that the company has "suspended, without pay, the individuals allegedly involved" in the activities mentioned in the complaint.
"We have suspended, without pay, the individuals allegedly involved and have retained the law firm Covington & Burling LLP to conduct an independent investigation led by former Attorney General Eric Holder. If these claims are confirmed, we’ll take all measures necessary to root out and remove this disturbing behavior from our company," Banks said in a statement.
Other defendants named in the complaint include Tyson Foods Chairman John H. Tyson and CEO Noel W. White, as well as Tyson Fresh Meats President Stephen R. Stouffer and Health and Safety for Tyson Foods Senior Vice President Tom Brower.
The son of a deceased Tyson Foods employee is accusing the company of neglecting worker safety safety at its pork processing plant in Waterloo, Iowa.
Oscar Fernandez, son of Isidro Fernandez, this week filed a lawsuit uploaded by local news outlet KCCI accusing the company of "fraudulent misrepresentations, gross negligence, and incorrigible, willful and wanton disregard for worker safety." Isidro Fernandez died of complications from the novel coronavirus in April.
The complaint notes that at one point during the pandemic, managers and supervisors made cash bets on how many workers would contract COVID-19. The virus put enormous pressure on U.S. supply chains earlier this year, leading to temporary meat shortages in some areas.
"Defendant Tom Hart, the plant manager of the Waterloo facility, organized a cash buy-in, winner-take-all betting pool for supervisors and managers to wager how many employees would test positive for COVID-19," the suit reads.
Tyson Foods President and CEO Dan Banks, who is named as a defendant in the lawsuit, said in a Thursday statement that the company has "suspended, without pay, the individuals allegedly involved" in the activities mentioned in the complaint.
"We have suspended, without pay, the individuals allegedly involved and have retained the law firm Covington & Burling LLP to conduct an independent investigation led by former Attorney General Eric Holder. If these claims are confirmed, we’ll take all measures necessary to root out and remove this disturbing behavior from our company," Banks said in a statement.
Other defendants named in the complaint include Tyson Foods Chairman John H. Tyson and CEO Noel W. White, as well as Tyson Fresh Meats President Stephen R. Stouffer and Health and Safety for Tyson Foods Senior Vice President Tom Brower.
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Status of 2021 Charro Days Fiesta still under discussion
They'll do it because they don't care and they want the money.
pinche mamones...
The city should start charging them for the chair spaces and the use of city buildings.
Enough is enough!
QUESTION: Does the charro days board pay city taxes? I bet they don't just like all the elected city officials
PLUS free parking spaces downtown. (pizza place?).
Walmart offers Christmas lights hanging services
Where? Outside??? NOT INSIDE MY HOUSE gueyes
Rumor is the City of Brownsville will be sending Jessica T. Kalifa to go and test herself at the plant to make sure the people suing Tyson are actually infected or not. She will have a team from Brownville PA Eder to make sure no one is over billing the Tyson Foods. Jessica says we can't stop the Pork from coming to Brownville,TX. Que siga el chorizo
Awe pobrecitos
Political correctness sucks
“hysterics” of a lame-duck city commissioner THEY ALL HAVE TO GO da mayor included with all this cronies.
Sent that hillbilly coco wanna be white to work there he's always sitting on a bus shelter and sleeping in the park. Do something constructive pinche guey GET TO WORK hand-out sucker PIDICHE LOL SMH KMA
G20 leaders seek to help poorest nations in post-COVID world
How about the poorest city so it can built more bike trails...
I hear the new city limit sign will have the following words: WELCOME TO BROWNSVILLE TEXAS THE ONLY CITY IN THE WORLD THAT MAKES YOU FEEL LIKE YOU ARE DRIVING ON THE MOON.
I D I O T A !
ooooops he didn't post his stupidity
He's sell shoulder pork at the central bus shelter his main office pinche pendejo hillbilly coco wanna be white
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