Employees at a Smithfield pork processing plant in South Dakota where a coronavirus outbreak infected over 800 people were greeted at work Wednesday with thank you signs, cheers and waves from about a dozen area residents. “They're putting their health at risk just like the hospital workers are
1 / 3Virus Outbreak Meat Plants WorkersSioux Falls residents cheered and held thank you signs to greet employees of a Smithfield pork processing plant as they begin their shift on Wednesday May 20, 2020, in Sioux Falls, S.D. Smithfield called many employees back to work after it closed the plant for more than three weeks because of a coronavirus outbreak that infected over 800 employees. SIOUX FALLS, S.D.
The plant has instructed many workers to return to work this week as it looks to scale up operations by the end of the month. Masked employees streamed into the factory entrance as trucks carrying pigs rumbled past. Some community advocates said the thank-you parade, while appreciated, doesn’t provide meaningful help for the immigrant communities that have been disproportionately impacted by the outbreak at Smithfield.
Dave Tesphay, an employee who was reporting to work on Wednesday, said that with the pandemic"it was really scary at first.”
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