Posted on 04/24/2020 12:35:33 AM PDT by RomanSoldier19
Whether you're barbequing chicken this weekend, putting a pork roast in the oven or grilling steaks, meatpackers are the people who put the food on your table.
On Thursday came a warning from the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union: if its workers can't stay healthy in processing plants across the country, there could be food shortages.
"America's food supply depends on these workers. They feed America," Marc Perrone, the union's president told us.
A handful of packing plants across the country already have closed due to the coronavirus outbreak, including a Smithfield Plant in South Dakota. The union that represents more than 250,000 meatpackers says it's simple: their people need more protections from the virus to stay on the job. Already more than 5,000 workers are either sick or have been exposed to the virus.
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Up here in Washington, the refineries figured out how to keep their workers safe: Assemble two shifts of volunteers to be locked inside the gates for 30 days. They get paid for 24 hours each day, but run two twelve hours shifts. No one in or out for 30 days.
The volunteers are making almost $1,500 daily.
bttt
That would be interesting in the refrigerated, tightly packed, abusive environment of a meat packing plant, where injuries are frequent and common. We reap what we sow.
Mask... Wear them. Another idea... Wash your hands.
If the owners want to make money, they will implement changes or be be put out of business.
Unions are as reliable as any Fak News source
I bet if they were given hazard pay the unions would suddenly have no problem with how COVID is being handled.
I’m sure the companies can get thousands of people to replace the union workers who are afraid to do their jobs.
Remember unions work along side rats
My first thought too....
This the same union that turned a blind eye to all the illegals in the industry...?
Oh ho, no mention of Smithfield as now being owned by the Chi-Coms? Where representatives made an inspection of the Sioux Falls, SD location earlier this this year?
Can’t find Sanderson Farms chicken in Florida right now. My relatives can in Mississippi All I see is Tyson and Purdue. Which one is worse?
Everyone needs to start butchering their own meat again like in the old days.
These companies and states who have not followed federal government guidelines are a real threat to national security. Things are going to get dicey...
Yes, the plants beetter get it cleaned the hell up.
All I see is Tyson and Purdue. Which one is worse?
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I always chose Purdue over Tyson since back in Clinton times I remember Tyson as big backers of them. And you have Sonny Perdue as Secy of Ag on Trumps team.
Thank you. I can hold out, but the rest of the family wants chicken. I haven’t seen a lot of Purdue at the store, but I’ll check today.
I’m certainly no fan of unions, but they do have a point. If the Illegals working there get sick and cannot be replaced (or the plants have to shut down), it’s difficult to see how our meat makes it to market.
Is it time to panic?
1 in 500 "sick or exposed"... whatever they mean by "exposed".
How many out of 500 workers called in sick per day in average over the last couple of years?
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