A labor camp, a Super 8 and a long bus ride home: What happened when COVID-19 hit migrant workers at a Wisconsin canning plant
How 1 in 14 immigrant workers at a Wisconsin green bean facility died of COVID-19.
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How 1 in 14 immigrant workers at a Wisconsin green bean facility died of COVID-19.
Email A labor camp, a Super 8 and a long bus ride home: What happened when COVID-19 hit migrant workers at a Wisconsin canning plant Maria Perez, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Published 6:02 pm UTC May. 20, 2021 Pedro Quiroz was the last migrant worker to board the bus. The 77-year-old walked slowly and breathed heavily as a co-worker helped him get on. He wasn’t wearing a mask, and someone rushed to find him one. The migrant workers were leaving a labor camp in the northern Wisconsin town of Gillett where they had lived for four months. Their employer, a green bean canning plant, had abrupt...
How 1 in 14 immigrant workers at a Wisconsin green bean facility died of COVID-19.