In August, a Foster Farms poultry processing plant in Livingston in Merced County was temporarily shut down because of a COVID-19 outbreak where at least 392 workers tested positive and nine workers died. Now, Foster Farms is facing outbreaks at three of the company’s plants in the Central Valley.
But it’s been really hard to get basic information about what’s going on about things like worker safety and who makes the final decisions. Today, we talk about what we do and don’t know about these outbreaks, and what this lack of information means for the general public and the company’s workers.
Guest: Alexandra Hall, KQED Central Valley reporter
Read the transcript here.