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Calls For Essential Workers In Alberta's Meat Packing Industry To Receive Vaccinations

The UFCW Local 401 is holding a special telephone town hall discussion for its members on Sunday.
 
The focus of which will be a discussion around vaccinations with a panel of experts.
 
The union represents employees at Alberta's major meat-packing plants.
 
Thomas Hesse, President of the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 4-0-1 says the plant workers are deemed essential workers and should move higher on the list for the COVID-19 vaccine.
 
He says there needs to be a discussion on making the vaccine more readily available to those essential workers who aren't necessarily health-care professionals
 
The Cargill beef plant in High River and the J-B-S Canada plant in Brooks both had COVID-19 outbreaks last spring.
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