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“We are supporting our people through this process, with potential options of relocating to other manufacturing sites, where jobs are matched to skill set and experience required, and via EAP (Employee Assistance Programme) services. “Next season, our Temuka team will focus on the products it makes really well, outstanding, artisanal, award-winning cheeses.” The spokesperson said pausing the manufacturing of bulk cheese “was necessary to enable our team to make changes to our bulk cheese processes”. Just over 18 months ago the future looked bright for the Temuka plant. This followed Synlait purchasing the Talbot Forest Cheese brand, property and plant at the Temuka site from Geraldine couple Paul Fitzsimons and Angela Veale for a figure estimated between $30million and $40million.
The mass shooting April 15 at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis took the lives of eight workers and injured seven more. Half of those slain were members of the Sikh community, and one was a young African American woman. The murderer, 19-year-old Brandon Hole, killed himself after the shootings took…
Horror and heroism often walk side-by-side. For every insurrectionist who attacked the U.S. Capitol last month, many more lifted their voices against racism and police violence in streets across our country. For every leader sowing false doubts about the 2020 results, droves of dedicated election workers tended to an honest vote. Amid every tweet downplaying the ravages of COVID-19, millions of American workers put their lives on the line every day to keep our society afloat.
The past year was hardly the first time the angels and demons of the human spirit have fought for the soul of our country. In this time of trial, it’s all the more vital to take strength from the examples of our forebearers, to remember we are the inheritors of a proud tradition of not taking injustice lying down, and that every right we enjoy emerged from intense struggle.
On the morning of September 3, 1991 the Imperial Foods chicken processing plant in Hamlet, North Carolina burst into flames. But managers had locked and bolted the factory’s doors. Engulfed in choking smoke and heat, the workers could not escape. Twenty-five workers died, fifty-five were injured. Eighteen of them were women, twelve were Black. Forty-nine children lost their parents.
Typical of the industry and the region, the workers were paid just above the minimum wage. The plant had never been inspected for health and safety. The employer, Emmet Roe, was fiercely anti-union. He was eventually convicted but was released from prison after merely four years.