Alberta’s Opposition NDP, along with union leaders, is calling on the province to shut down a Cargill meat-packing plant so it can be determined whether the company is meeting legal obligations to involve workers in safety concerns.
An Occupational Health and Safety report says Cargill didn’t include workers in an internal review last month of circumstances that led to over 950 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in employees at the plant in High River, Alta.
The department has given the plant, which has 2,000 workers, a week to make that happen. The Alberta government announced Monday that a second employee at Cargill had died of COVID-19. “Unfortunately, one death reported over the weekend was an employee from Cargill who fell ill last month,”