In an effort to protect Nebraska workers who labor shoulder-to-shoulder on meatpacking production lines from the coronavirus, Sen. Tony Vargas of Omaha has reached out to his colleagues in the Legislature to engage their support. Vargas sent fellow senators a copy of a letter to meatpacking companies prepared by the Heartland Workers Center in Omaha that attempts to help "identify best practices" that can assist in shielding the largely immigrant workforce.

"I don't think we can tell yet" whether workers are being adequately protected," Vargas said Wednesday during a telephone interview. "What we know is it's not business as usual."

The goal is to protect workers while keeping them employed and maintaining operation of the essential service of helping provide the nation's food supply, the senator said.

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