Meatpacking COVID toll much higher than prior estimates
A U S House report estimates at least 59,000 meatpacking workers fell ill with COVID-19 and 269 died last year, far above earlier figures. production dropped to about 60 percent as plants closed or slowed, with critics saying firms did not act quickly to protect workers. The North American Meat Institute defended the industry’s response.
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Omaha
Neb
U.S. House
Demic
United Food and Commercial Workers Union
U.S
North American Meat Institute Trade Group
Retailers face holiday shortages amid supply chain woes
New York reports store shelves thinning as bottlenecks hit small retailers like Ginger Pigg in Cumming Georgia. Delays stretch to four to six weeks for items such as pepper jelly and candles while vendors cut delivery guarantees. Larger chains can bypass delays. smaller shops scramble to stock for holiday demand and travel surges. See BUY, Page 20
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New York
Perfect Pigg
Ginger Pigg
Cumming
Georgia
Pigg’s
Pigg
Walmart
Target
Renee Silverman
Irv
Vernon
Illinois
Pioneer Plugger of Holland Built Mills and Ships
Albert Plugger born 1809 in the Netherlands built a Holland cargo and passenger trade to Chicago starting in 1852. He owned a flour mill, grocery, and bank parlor, funded shipbuilding, donated to dig Black Lake channel, and helped Van Raalte’s school before his 1860 death, with City Mills later renamed after sale.
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Peter Pfanstiehl
Albert Plugger
Holland
Netherlands
Henjktje Schaap
Albertus van Raalte
Plugger
Chicago
White, Wyn and Company
River Avenue
Fifth Street
Nathan Kenyon
Maggie
van Raalte
Jacob van Putten
City Mills
Standard Roller Mills
Walsh-DeRoo and Company
Henjstje
Cornelis de Jong
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Cumming, Ga
Ben Gray
Christine Noh
Nobble
Seth Wenig
Pfanstiehl
Vanderveen
City Hotel
Courtesseum
Steve VanderVeen
Holland Sentinel
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