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Tyson suspends Iowa plant managers amid COVID betting claims

Tyson Foods on Thursday suspended top officials at its largest pork plant amid claims that they had a betting pool on how many workers at the facility would contract the coronavirus during a widespread outbreak. The company’s president and CEO, Dean Banks, said he was “extremely upset” about the allegations against managers at the Waterloo,

Tyson Foods boss had betting pool for worker COVID-19 cases: suit

The manager of a Tyson Foods pork processing plant in Iowa organized a winner-take-all betting pool for supervisors to wager on how many workers at the facility would contract COVID-19 around the start of the pandemic, a new lawsuit charges. The manager of the Waterloo pork plant, Tom Hart, allegedly set up the sadistic wager