U.S. Food-Worker Deaths Reach 20 as Thousands See Virus Impact

More of America’s workers who are keeping food supplies churning are falling sick and dying.

Twenty workers in U.S. meatpacking and food-processing plants have died and at least 6,500 have been directly impacted by the coronavirus, according to the United Food and Commercial Workers Union, America’s largest private-sector union. Those directly impacted include individuals who have tested positive for coronavirus, missed work due to self-quarantine, are awaiting test results, or have been hospitalized, the group said Tuesday in a statement.

“America’s meatpacking workers and our nation’s food supply are in greater danger every day that companies and leaders fail to ...