Monday, August 31, 2020

Union calls for Alberta plant to close

Union organizers want Sofina Foods to shut down its poultry-processing plant at Ramsay, Alta., because 27 workers have tested positive for COVID-19.


All of the infected employees are from the same second shift at the 24-hour facility and Sofina is asking all employees on that shift to stay home until the company considers whether “additional measures” are needed to contain any further spread.


Sofina is better known in Ontario for running the province’s largest hog-slaughtering plant at Burlington.