Roper Plant

Workers complain about social distancing at the Roper Plant in LaFayette.

They want it to shut down.

Available, whats needed and so basically today was establishing the process, opening the lines of communication and as i said we're going to be forming a couple of work groups that are going to be looking at specific issues."

Workers at a lafayette manufacturing plant are voicing their concerns about their work environment while trying not to contract covid-19.

News 12's taylor bishop spoke with some employees on why they say the plant needs to be shut down.

"we was coming back to work with one week off.

In one week they were supposed to have sanatized the whole buiolding and as you can see this building is twenty-eight acres long.

That's a lot of building."

Roper corporation workers say their problems happen before they even hit the door.

"we was told that roper corperation would not be shut down unless it was a confirmed case, but then it would be to late because we are a company that has over two thousand employees.

Once one person gets it it will spread."

Workers say they had to wait in lines to get their temperatures taken before they could go inside to start their shifts.

They say the hr deparment isn't answering their questions and have shut their doors.

"i personally stayed inline for forty minutes in the cold waiting to get to my job, i clocked in late to my job and there were also several people in the line stating that they had fevers" workers who reached out to us say they are concerned for their own health at work and then returning home and being around their families.

"it's like so many cases going on there are so many pending cases in roper which they havent even got word if it was confirmed or not because there have been limited kits being provided for testing" several workers say they plan to protest outside of the plant is their demands aren't met.

In lafayette, taylor bishop news 12 now.

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