Canada: Staff at XL Foods shocked by layoffs

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Staff and union officials attached to the embattled XL Foods meat processing plant in Alberta expressed shock after the company said Saturday it is temporarily laying off almost all of its employees

— 2,000 out of approximately 2,200.
"The employees have a fear, they don't understand what is going on," said Abdi Nasir Guir, a worker at the Brooks, Alta. plant which remains at the centre of an international beef recall because of E. coli contamination. "So many people today were crying because they have car payments,