Coronavirus/CoVid-19/Pandemic/Health
Meat Industry in The Netherlands Can’t Work with 1,5-meter Distance
The slaughterhouses have trouble meeting the measurements from the government to work with at their workspace. There are more infections there.
There are a lot of issues going on in the meat industry at the moment since the outbreak of the Coronavirus. Such as they couldn’t keep up the measurements with so many people working close next to each other in one room. The last weeks have been difficult for them.
The meat industry has chosen for an earning model with 80 percent of labor migrants, most of them live in Germany (Emmerich and Kleven) with 12 people together, all in living complexes. They will come to the company with busses all at once. The FNV wants the slaughterhouses to work on half the power to prevent the Coronavirus. Think about working in more shifts, during the day and during the evening. Then you can keep the 1,5-meter distance much better. This way they can make a good production. Otherwise, they have to get the right protective gear.
The question is why employees in the meat industry get infected with CoVid-19. First of all…
