From Eastern Europe they are often employed by subcontractors and at times have to toil away under dire conditions there isnt outbreak has upset the local population. The numerous covered 1000 cases the quarantine the temporary lockdown all that has brought some negative publicity to the town of fate i didnt book where 10 years is headquartered at the outbreak has also shed light on the Meat Industry as a whole people who have worked in slaughterhouses tell taff and partly ensure main working conditions. And the gabriela are from romania they were lured to germany with the promises of well paid jobs but once they arrived they were met by a harsh reality. Of ads like these promised well paid jobs in germanys Meat Industry rumanian Companies Like the m. G. M. Trade in recruiting agency use them to find workers for the german labor market and to learn gabriela are among those who fell for these ads desperate for work they left their kids behind and signed up with a different subcontractor
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Say the waters off the coast of being overfished. Slaughterhouses are hotspots for covert 19 activist investors say that Meat Processing plants could be the cause of the next pandemic. The coronavirus pandemic has had a devastating impact on the Global Economy its pushed back global efforts to reduce poverty improve livelihoods and health care now understandably nations of poured billions into shoring up Health Services but the recovery now that lockdowns are being lifted needs to take into consideration all other global emergency Climate Change with temperatures hitting 100 degrees fahrenheit in siberia and the Arctic Circle the challenge couldnt be more dire lets put this into perspective because we can tackle poverty job creation and Climate Change at the same time to limit rising temperatures to below 1. 5 degrees sell. This 2. 00 trillion dollars a year needs to be spent on Energy Systems around the world until 2035 thats around 2 and a half percent of the worlds economy the u. N.
Million in federal aid for affected communities. Essential workers in agriculture and Meatpacking Industries who are mainly latino are especially vulnerable to getting sick and dying from the disease. The Fresno County Health Department says latinos make up roughly half of the countys population but account for nearly 70 percent of covid19 deaths. With me now by skypeis Fresno City Council president and enining by skype from fresno is steve randel. Thank you both so much for joining us. Thanks for having us paid you are a erformer farmwo uabout the conditions that make itrd to contain the virus among farmworkers. These conditions are very specific to farmworkers including living in high density substandard housing with intergenerational living conditions, thfact that they are uninsured and have limited access to healthcare, a lot of them have preexisting medical conditions le diabetes and high Blood Pressure and they livein an area with the highest pollution rate in the country and the
Covid19. E. 14,000 peo narrator and what can be done to minimize their risk . The Trump Administration could do this now. Under the osha law the ssfederal government can i an emergency regulation. They can do that tomorrow, saying employers must protect workers from covid19. Narrator now on frontlinen it doesfeel like were essential, it feels like weresl es. Narrator covids hidden toll. Frontline is made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. And by the corporation for major support is provi the john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant and peeful world. At the ford foun working with visionaries on the frontlines of social change worldwide. Additional support is provided by the abrams foundation,te commto excellence in journalism. The park foundation,te dedicated to heing Public Awareness of critical issues. The john and Helen Glessner family trust. T supportistworthy journalism that informs and in