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Processing plants to stay open after many are forced to close due to the virus. What it means for workers safety and your next trip to the grocery store. And a safer tomorrow. How the pandemic is inspiring inventions that could change our lives forever. First, heres todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. If we prematurely try to open up, it could be a rebound to get us back in the same boat that we were in a few weeks ago. Reporter covid19 has now killed more americans than the vietnam war. Reporter there are now more than one million cases of coronavirus in our nation. Were going to sho...

(Adds comments from labor union in second and third paragraphs and from Smithfield Foods in eighth paragraph) CHICAGO, June 22 (Reuters) - More than 200 workers who clean meat plants have unionized...

More than 200 workers who clean meat plants have unionized after their employer paid U.S. fines for hiring children to do dangerous jobs sanitizing slaughterhouses, the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) International Union said on Thursday.

A hard-hitting report from an investor network on meat industry labour shortages has pointed the finger at the processors themselves.