One of the seven managers at a Tyson Foods plant in Iowa fired for betting on how many employees would contract COVID-19 recently broke his silence to defend the controversial ordeal that led to his termination.
Don Merschbrock, an ex-night manager at the pork plant in Waterloo, told the Associated Press that he and his six fired co-workers are “not the evil people” Tyson Foods characterized them as. He claimed he and his colleagues did right by their team members and did all they could to protect them from the deadly virus.
The seven managers were fired in mid-December, roughly a month after the company issued suspensions related to the alleged betting pool.
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December 29, 2020
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) One of the Tyson Foods managers fired for betting on how many workers would contract COVID-19 at an Iowa pork plant said the office pool was spontaneous fun and intended to boost morale. Don Merschbrock, …
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