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In the course of two years of contract negotiations, the UFCW has repeatedly stalled on calling a walkout for its roughly 15,000 members at Kroger in the region, provoking growing frustration among workers.
The Sioux Falls plant was the site of one of the earliest major outbreaks in the industry, with the plant accounting for the large majority of coronavirus infections in the state of South Dakota in April 2020.
UFCW complicity exposed in outbreak at Tyson pork plant where managers bet on infections for information on organizing a rank-and-file safety committee at your workplace. Since the beginning of the pandemic in March, more than 50,000 workers in the US meatpacking industry have tested positive for COVID-19 and over 250 workers have died. Though the entire industry has been a hotbed for COVID-19 infections, the situation at Tyson Food’s plant in Waterloo, Iowa has been especially alarming, with more than 1031 of the 2800 workers at the plant testing positive for COVID-19, while 6 have died. W...