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.

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.