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Union calls out 'sick system' after slaughterhouse outbreak

| June 18, 2020 4:27 AM

BERLIN (AP) — A German labor union called Thursday for an end to the practice of using subcontractors in Germany's meat industry, after a fresh outbreak of COVID-19 sickened hundreds at one of the country's biggest slaughterhouses.

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