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Economy

COVID and Meatpacking Plants - One Year Later

Tyson Foods

On Midwest Week, one year after the pandemic began in the midwest, a look at its impact on meatpacking plants and workers.

Herb Trix's guest is Sydney Czyzon, reporter for the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier.

You can also hear Midwest Week Fridays on WVIK at 6:20 pm during All Things Considered.

A native of Detroit, Herb Trix began his radio career as a country-western disc jockey in Roswell, New Mexico (“KRSY, your superkicker in the Pecos Valley”), in 1978. After a stint at an oldies station in Topeka, Kansas (imagine getting paid to play “Louie Louie” and “Great Balls of Fire”), he wormed his way into news, first in Topeka, and then in Freeport Illinois.