LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The union representing workers at a meatpacking plant near Los Angeles where at least 153 employees have come down with COVID-19 called on Thursday for the plant’s immediate closure, saying measures to control the outbreak were not working.
The outbreak has hit over 10% of the workforce at the Smithfield-owned Farmer John plant, said John Grant, president of the local chapter of the United Food and Commercial Workers union.
“It’s dangerous and the problem with this is that it’s invisible, insidious and deadly,” Grant said. “And so what y