COVID-19 crisis edges into a second year, the food processing industry wants provinces to include plant workers in the next phase of vaccinations.After a two-week shutdown, the Olymel pork processing plant in Red Deer, Alta., resumed operations Thursday. ‘A frightened workforce’: Union worries as Olymel reopens after COVID-19 shutdown A COVID-19 outbreak there led to more than 500 infections and at least three deaths.“We grieve with the family of the workers who have been lost and we share the anxiety and the fear of the workers who are now called to return to work,” said Thomas Hesse, president of the United Food and Commercials Workers Canada (UFCW) Local 401.The three deaths at Olymel make it the deadliest COVID-19 outbreak at a meat.