This week Nebraska Legislators defeated Senator Tony Vargas’s bill that would have added additional COVID 19 protections for meat packing workers. Senator Steve Erdman of Bayard says most of the processing plants had already taken steps to increase protections for workers so this measure wasn’t needed.

He says most Senators felt Vargas’s bill that would add more regulations was just an example of adding more unnecessary red tape to government.

Erdman says most of the processing workers that contracted COVID 19 were infected away from the plant.

A similar processing worker protection bill proposed by Senator Vargas failed last session.