In the United States this week, President Donald Trump used laws forged during the Korean war to order meat-processing plants to stay open. The Irish meat-processing industry began what is likely to be a long-running and fraught crisis-management process as it seeks to control and limit the impact of Covid-19 on factory floors, and therefore on factories. Still not healed following the corrosive beef plan conflict last year, Ireland’s meat processors – and the farmers they buy from – do not need another crisis. At times of crisis, all a business’s weak points are exposed and put under pressure. The stakes are high for the meat-processing industry, and it will have to show a commonality of purpose and endeavour that have been recently lacking to get through this latest crisis.

Source: The Irish Times May 02, 2020 02:15 UTC