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Are meat plant employees the most precarious essential workers?

February 9, 2021Bronwyn Bragg, centre for refugee studies, CRS, Jennifer Hyndman, meat packing workers, workplace health and safetysuhasini

Experts available for interviews on dangerous workplace heath and safety conditions facing racialized workers amid COVID-19 outbreaks TORONTO, February 9, 2021 – COVID-19 outbreaks in several meat processing and packing facilities in Alberta – including the recent second wave in the Cargill Canada plant in High River – highlight the precarious health and safety conditions facing […]