Axel Fuentes, Executive Director, Rural Community Workers Alliance
May 22, 2020•28 min•Ep. 568
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Episode description
Did you know that the Smithfield pork processing plant in Milan, Missouri processes 10,500 hogs per day? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and registered dietitian, Melinda Hemmelgarn, for her interview with Axel Fuentes, Executive Director, Rural Community Workers Alliance, and labor organizer. Fuentes shares real life experiences of Smithfield meat processing plant workers including: line speed, repetitive injuries and lack of bathroom breaks. Now, workers face dire risk from COVID-19 infection because of unsafe working conditions.
Related website: http://foodchainworkers.org/portfolio/rural-community-workers-alliance/
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