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Union Asks USDA not to Appeal Court Decision
Tuesday Jun 1st, 2021 United Food and Commercial Workers International is asking the USDA to respect a court decision that said the previous administration unlawfully allowed packing plants to ignore limits on pork line speeds.
The court held that USDA acted unlawfully when it refused to consider the impact of eliminating line speeds on worker health and safety in its “New Swine Inspection System” issued a few months before the pandemic began to spread.
Mark Lauritsen is the national head of UFCW’s meatpacking operations. Lauritsen: “If COVID did anything it should have taught us that if the workers in meatpacking plants aren’t safe the entire food supply chain is not safe and if they re not safe in those places it jeopardizes the hog producer who will then have no place to sell their hogs. It jeopardizes the retailer who will have no product to sell. So what we want to do is work with USDA, work with all the stakeholders
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WASHINGTON (AP) â In a major step toward returning to pre-pandemic life, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has eased mask-wearing guidance for fully vaccinated people, allowing them to stop wearing masks outdoors in crowds and in most indoor settings.
âToday is a great day for America,â President Joe Biden said Thursday during a Rose Garden address heralding the new guidance, an event where he and his staff went without masks. Hours earlier in the Oval Office, where Biden was meeting with vaccinated Republican lawmakers, he led the group in removing their masks when the guidance was announced.
âIf you are fully vaccinated, you no longer need to wear a mask, he said, summarizing the new guidance and encouraging more Americans to roll up their sleeves. âGet vaccinated â or wear a mask until you do.â