Homeless, Felons help fill poultry jobs

Atlanta Journal Constitution ^ | 11/26/06 | Mary Lou Pickel

[Kimberly GG]

As long as the 'homeless' aren't also illegals....gee, attrition works!

[LauraleeBraswell]

Americans doing the jobs American's wouldn't want to do.

[Jackson Brown]

Americans doing the jobs American's wouldn't want to do.

You got it!!

Plus a GREAT way for convicts to pay for (at least some of) the costs of keeping them in jail -- PLUS -- less costs to the community for all the services for the illegals families!!

[magellan]

I would rather see reforming felons work these jobs than illegals.

Likewise, I would rather see deboning "outsourced" to Alabama (is that really outsourcing?) than Mexico.

[axes_of_weezles]

CRIDER, W A MR JR
METTER,GA 30439


CRIDER POULTRY/CHAIRMAN


7/1/2005


$2,500


National Chicken Council

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STILLMORE,GA 30464


CRIDER INC./VICE PRESIDENT


7/20/2005


$2,500


National Chicken Council

CRIDER, BILLY MR
STILLMORE,GA 30464


CRIDER POULTRY/OWNER


3/31/2005


$2,100


Marshall, Jim

CRIDER, BILLY MR
STILLMORE,GA 30464


CRIDER POULTRY/OWNER


3/31/2005


$2,100


Marshall, Jim

CRIDER, W A JR
STILLMORE,GA 30464


CRIDER INC/OWNER


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$2,100


Burns, Max

CRIDER, W A JR
STILLMORE,GA 30464


CRIDER INC/OWNER


6/23/2005


$2,100


Burns, Max

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METTER,GA 30439


CRIDER POULTRY CO./PRES. POULTRY PR


4/9/2005


$2,000


Kingston, Jack

CRIDER , MR WILLIAM JR
METTER,GA 30439


CRIDER POULTRY CO./PRES. POULTRY PR


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$2,000


Kingston, Jack

CRIDER JR, WILLIAM
STILLMORE,GA 30464


CRIDER INC./VICE PRESIDENT


5/9/2005


$2,000


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STILLMORE,GA 30464


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STILLMORE,GA 30464


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Isakson, Johnny

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STILLMORE,GA 30464


CRIDER INC


5/3/2005


$2,000


Isakson, Johnny

CRIDER, WILLIAM
STILLMORE,GA 30464


CRIDER COMPANIES/VP OPERATIONS


6/30/2006


$2,000


Chambliss, Saxby

CRIDER, WILLIAM
STILLMORE,GA 30464


CRIDER COMPANIES/VP OPERATIONS


6/30/2006


$2,000


Chambliss, Saxby

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[speekinout]

Did you notice that they have 450 employees now, rather than the 1,000 they used to have? And that most of the 450 are ones who are coerced into working?

Where are the Americans who want these jobs?

[jamie_justice62]

"Americans doing the jobs American's wouldn't want to do."

Bingo!

[Moonman62]

Additionally, 16 men from the Garden City Rescue Mission in Augusta have come to work in the plant. Several from the mission have become shift leaders, said Lavond Reynolds, director of men's housing for the mission.

"Compared to the attrition rate [at the plant] in general, these guys have really stuck so far," Reynolds said. The mission might send another 15 soon.

[Moonman62]

Americans doing the jobs Mexicans can't do because the law is finally being enforced.

[Cinnamon]

are not illegals felons of the federal kind? so what's the fuzz here about hiring real U.S.citizen felons?

[axes_of_weezles]

Doing something other than slave wage agribusiness jobs.
When you have to eat, I guess you will have to have a few chickens in the yard.

I know how to grow and slaughter them, so I am not scared.

Have them call their congressmen and senators they donated money to. It's a national crisis. /sarcasm

[sweetliberty]

D@mn! Why couldn't they do this with all the Tyson plants in Arkansas?

[speekinout]

The point I tried to make is that the company has only been able to fill 450 jobs of the 1,000 they used to have. Does that sound like Americans are clamoring for these jobs? I don't think so.

[mirkwood]

"The point I tried to make is that the company has only been able to fill 450 jobs of the 1,000 they used to have. Does that sound like Americans are clamoring for these jobs? I don't think so."

Now the employer has to pay a legal wage. The pay output is the same. The employer will not pay any more.

[DeaconBenjamin2]

You don't think felons work for Tysons in Arkansas? I assure you that many do.

[F-117A]

I know where they can get another 435, not make that 535!

[sweetliberty]

Oh, I meant raiding the plants and getting the illegals out. As far as the homeless and criminals, I'd a lot rather THEM have the jobs.

[Drango]

Felons on probation and homeless men have filled some of the poultry jobs left by illegal Mexican laborers

Damm homless men...how dare they attempt to work.

[Between the Lines]

The illegals who worked there did not come all at once. They came there over many years displacing the former workers one by one, who have now have moved on to other areas to find jobs.

They didn't get into this mess overnight and they won't get out of it over night either.

[El Gato]

Likewise, I would rather see deboning "outsourced" to Alabama (is that really outsourcing?) than Mexico.

Alabama plant has probably just not been raided yet, and has a surplus of illegals, maybe some of the same ones who were at the Georgia plant.