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Too Many Lost: Honoring Workers Who Have Died from COVID-19 and Other Workplace Hazards Photo: Bobby Stevens Photo/Shutterstock Too Many Lost: Honoring Workers Who Have Died from COVID-19 and Other Workplace Hazards Kathleen Rest, executive director | April 28, 2021, 5:00 am EDT This post is a part of a series on Take a moment. Today, April 28, is not just another day. It’s Worker Memorial Day, the day when people in the US and around the world pause to recognize, remember, and honor those who...

Union Steps Up Pressure as Biden Administration Delays COVID-19 Safety Rule for Workers Growing concern that worker protection may not be enacted. Delay Coming from “Top Political Levels of the White House.” Despite growing pressure from labor groups and worker advocates on Capitol Hill, the Biden Administration continues to delay an emergency COVID-19 worker safety protection that was supposed to launch March 15—and it’s still unclear when (or even if) the measure will be enacted. “We have called for an ETS since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, along with oth...

Last modified on Wed 14 Apr 2021 06.15 EDT News from around the world Outbreaks of Covid-19 continue at meat-processing plants in the US, according to the Food and Environment Reporting Network, which reports a lack of information, protective gear and adequate distancing. In total, its data analysis found, just under a third of meat-plant workers in the US have been infected by the virus and at least 284 have died. In Brazil, a court has ordered JBS, the world’s largest meat company, to pay 20m reais (£2.6m) in damages after an outbreak of Covid-19 at a beef plant in the north of the count...

OMAHA (DTN) — Lee Reichmuth, who runs a cattle feedyard near Lindsay, Nebraska, recalls a year ago seeing “records broken” in cattle markets, such as boxed beef price moving from a little more than $2 a pound to the range of $4.75 a pound while, at the same time, the April futures contract for fed cattle took a $40 dip in value. A year ago, as much of the country was in lockdown, the supply chain for meat buckled as workers by the hundreds at packing plants across the country tested positive for COVID-19, causing both beef and pork packing plants to shut down across the Midwest and Plai...

Ridofranz/iStock/Getty Images Several agriculture organizations among more than 275 groups and individuals uniting to encourage Americans to get vaccinated. The North American Meat Institute, American Farm Bureau Federation, National Corn Growers Association, National Farmers Union, National Milk Producers Federation and the National Association of Wheat Growers are among the more than 275 founding organizations of the COVID-19 Community Corps – a nationwide, grassroots network of local voices who have come together to encourage Americans to get vaccinated. “As a...