(September of 2020)Last week, and six months into the coronavirus pandemic, the federal worker safety agency issued its first Covid-19-related citations in the meatpacking industry, where the United Food and Commercial Workers estimated that more than 18,000 workers have been exposed to the virus. But the union, which represents meatpacking workers, said the citations issued against a Smithfield plant in South Dakota and a plant owned by JBS Foods in Colorado are a “new low” for the Trump administration. Together, the fines against the two companies totaled roughly $29,000, despite a combined total of at least 12 worker deaths and...