Tyson Foods said it would require its 120,000 workers to get the COVID vaccine after its meatpacking plants were criticized as hot spots for infections early in the pandemic.
The company said only 56,000 of its employees had been vaccinated so far - for a rate of 46.6%. That compares to 50.2% of the US population as a whole that has a vaccine.
Front-line workers who comply with the rule will get $200, the company said, but The United Food and Commercial Workers that represents Tyson workers have opposed the mandate, saying that the vaccine still isn t fully cleared by the FDA.
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