Employer Sued After Meat Processing Plant Union Steward Dies From COVID-19

(May 8, 2020, 12:37 PM EDT) -- PHILADELPHIA — The operators of a Souderton, Pa., beef processing plant ignored worker safety and federal guidance in the midst of the novel coronavirus pandemic resulting in an employee and union steward contracting and dying from COVID-19, the employee’s son alleges in a complaint filed May 7 in the Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas on behalf of himself and his father’s estate (Ferdinand Benjamin v. JBS S.A., et al., No. 200500370, Pa. Comm. Pls., Philadelphia Co.)....