A Portrait of a Pandemic: Work Continues at Meat Packing Plants as Covid-19 Spreads

KIOS | By JLaBure

Published May 18, 2020 at 7:45 AM CDT

In this edition of “a portrait of a pandemic” KIOS’s Joshua LaBure brings us a conversation with Eric Rede of United Food and Commercial Workers Union explaining what he hears from those actually working in the factories continuing to operate during the pandemic

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