Both plants remain in production.
Workers at the Brandon plant have been calling for a temporary shut-down, warning the situation could escalate as happened at the Cargill beef plant in Alberta.
Tuesday, August 18, 2020
COVID cases rising at packing plants
The count of workers testing positive for COVID-19 recently rose to 56 at the Maple Leaf hog-slaughtering plant at Brandon, Man., and Olymel sent 13 workers home from its pork plant at Red Deer, Alta., after a couple of its workers tested positive.
