Nurse: Tyson Foods employed children at plants

AP ^ | 2/19/03 | Bill Poovey

[Brian Mosely]

CHATTANOOGA

[Brian Mosely]

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[Dante3]

Tysons is one nasty company. I avoid their products. Just don't trust them.

[AppyPappy]

I'm shocked that a company that actively hire illegals would commit a crime.

[camle]

Tyson foods: a major democratic contributor.

[gunnedah]

Tyson is a big supporter of the Clintons and the Racist Democrat Obstructionist Party of America. You know they are the one always talking about big business and racism.
This country regardless of party has another form of slavery going and its is those we import from Mexico and other foreign countries to do the work our people refuse to do.
This will be the next slave frontier brought upon our children and grandchildren.
Slave labor is slave labor regardless of party,what and when!

[Brian Mosely]

Yeah...the Shelbyvile plant is in my neck of the woods and this is being closely watched here. For years people knew they were getting up here somehow and many have always suspected something was afoot with the plant. The trial is airing all of that...and there may be more surprises in store for Tyson. Here's the same story for the Chattanooga Times-Free Press:

Witness says Tyson hired Hispanics as young as 9
By Dick Cook Staff Writer

A former nurse at the Tyson Foods poultry plant in Sedalia, Mo., told jurors Tuesday that the food giant employed Hispanic workers as young as 9. "One young man was injured in the plant when he caught his arm in an auger," said Kelly Englert, a nurse at the plant for six years. "Later we found out he was 14 years old."
In the third week of the Tyson Foods trial in U.S. District Court before Judge R. Allan Edgar, prosecutors expanded the focus of the trial from the facility in Shelbyville, Tenn., to the Sedalia plant.
The food-processing giant and six of its managers were named in a 57-page indictment claiming they conspired to smuggle illegal immigrants into the country to augment Tyson’s work force.
Attorneys for Tyson maintain any plans to smuggle illegal aliens were the actions of a few "rogue managers" who since have been fired.
Ms. Englert was one of five witnesses who worked in the Missouri plant to testify Tuesday.
Ms. Englert, employed at Tyson from 1995 to 2001, told jurors she gave physical examinations to new hires. She testified that in 1995 there were few Hispanics working at the Sedalia facility that employs about 1,500 workers. But by 1997, the company had to recruit new workers, many of them from Brownsville, Te x as, she said.
"When I left in 2001, about 80 percent of the line workers in the plant were Hispanic," Ms. Englert testified.
Ms. Englert said after one recruiting trip to Texas, workers arrived in buses. "They were all Hispanic," she said.
Wo rke rs would have to present two pieces of identification during the hiring process, she testified. When two new hires presented identification cards issued by Tyson to workers hired in the past, Ms. Englert said she reported it to Ahrazue Wilt, the personnel manager of the Sedalia plant.
"(Ms. Wilt) told me to stop, and we wouldn’t discuss it any further," Ms. Englert told jurors. "(Ms. Wilt) told me to do my job and everything else would be handled by personnel."
Shelly Mindoza worked at Tyson Foods from February 1998 until the end of September 2001. She received one of 25 community service awards presented by Chief Executive Officer John Tyson, she testified.
Ms. Mindoza told jurors, that in February 2001, when she was working for human resources, she began an investigation of Tyson employees at the Sedalia plant who allegedly were working there with forged identity papers.
The investigation was prompted by a plant employee who provided names of employees who were suspected of being in the country illegally, she testified.
Ms. Mindoza testified that her investigation was met with resistance from management.
"(Ms. Wilt) asked me if I was trying to fire the whole plant," Ms. Mindoza testified. "(Ms. Wilt) said we need bodies to run the lines."
The trial is expected to continue for at least another month, officials said.
E-mail Dick Cook at dcook@timesfreepress.com

[Destructor]

"Tysons is one nasty company. I avoid their products. Just don't trust them."

Really! I wouldn't be surprised if some of those children ended up in their products!

[Straight Vermonter]

I was a plant manager in this industry for a number of years. The work is incredibly physically demanding, cold and uncomfortable. Within the industry Tyson has a deplorable reputation and that was 10 years ago before all of this came out.

[Charles Henrickson]

The head of Tyson Foods:

[Lynn]

Do a google on "tyson chicken hillary Clinton" and check out all the goodies that come up...

[uncbob]

Tyson is a big supporter of the Clintons and the Racist Democrat Obstructionist Party of America

Exactly
Where the hell is all the investigative reporting tying Tyson to the Clintons
It was Tyson that gave Hillary that $50,000 cattle futures gift( bribe)

If this had been the Bush family there would be 5 books out about it already

[Charles Henrickson]

Tyson Foods employed children

"I want to eat your children!"
--Mike Tyson, June 24, 2000

[Happy2BMe]

Borders?? We Ain't Got No Steenking Borders!!

[Happy2BMe]

All..

I came across some information regarding how money sent from immigrant workers in the U.S. back to Mexico is spent within Mexico.

You are not going to believe this - the Mexican gubberment actually budgets this money into it's own infrastructure even to the point of using it to maintain and upgrade public utilities inside Mexico!

You read it right - the money sent back to Mexico is counted on to support public service inside Mexico and President Fox actually counts on it and advertises to municipalties inside of Mexico that the more money they get from workers inside the U.S. - the more money they will recieve from the Mexican government to improve their quality of life.

"In Mexico, public works that would be considered the province of government elsewhere may be financed by Mexican workers' remittances sent (from workers in the U.S.) to their hometowns.

In fact, the practice has been institutionalized by President Fox, who offers matching funds in some cases.

Fox, the former businessman, evidently has realized more than most in his position how the remittances maintain the status quo, despite the recent change in ruling parties.

These roads and schools are projects that do not require taxation on Mexicans remaining at home.

Incidentally, the Mexican ruling class has grown even wealthier in recent years. The Scientific American (2/01) reported the number of Mexican billionaires to be 13, the highest by far in Latin America, and nearly as many as France with 16.

The Mexican state of Zacatecas receives $1 million per day from its former residents (still Mexican citizens), according to a local migration expert.

That amount is more than what Zacatecas receives from the Mexico City government. Still, some Zacatecans bemoan the new ghost towns, where nearly everyone has left for their better life in the U.S., abandoning rural Mexico.

In an interesting twist, some in the area refuse to work in local factories and fields, preferring instead to wait for a check from the U.S. Evidently there are some jobs that Mexicans just won't do.

The Worldwide Cash Flow Continues to Grow"

I found this to be absolutely incredible - money leaving the U.S. already earmarked by the Mexican gubberment for public utilities!

And another thing is that so many Mexicans are migrating to the U.S. the void in the Mexican population is actually creating ghost towns inside Mexico!

Amazing.

[mickie]

Tyson Foods supported bill clinton way back when he was a 'no-body'.......he still is as far as I'm concerned!

[kaylar]

Once this particular plant reached about 30-40 % Hispanic, the plant managers are believed to have hinted to the illegals that it would be nice if the entire plant was Hispanic. And so a campaign of threats and violence against the black and white local workers who'd somehow kept their jobs began. (The plant managers had systematically fired the local workers as they were bringing in illegals. They used obscure rules and draconian enforcement of the rules as excuses to get rid of people.) I've heard of one white woman who was dragged behind a large piece of equipment and gangraped by several illegals , supposedly while the foreman watched or at least knew what was happening. I was told by a woman who had been employed in the HR department that the plant had had to hire security guards to escort the secretaries to their cars . She said that her sister-in-law, who is part Cherokee, was harrassed by the illegals as they thought from her appearance that she was 'one of them' and that she was just being uppity when she said she couldn't speak Spanish.

This is the reality behind that idiotic line,"They only do the jobs Americans are too proud and lazy to do". And it is just as much a lie if it's said about service workers (especially hotel staff), IT workers, and nurses, which is the next profession that's going to be made off-limits to native-born Americans of any race. I cannot understand why so many freepers especially parrot that line, when they should know how the media lies to push agendas.

[silver_patriot2000]

I've read that about 3,000 million per year goes back to Mexico, and that Fox is actually advocating and assisting illegal entry into the U.S. by issuing fake visas.

[Just mythoughts]

I hope this will connect some dots for the brainwashed, Tyson Foods could get away with this because of their protectors the Clintons, talk about "HUMAN RIGHTS", this is Hillary's village.

No wonder they want the government to take over health care, they could then control the cries of inhumane treatment, the communist way.

[ErnBatavia]

Great pic - that's Alfonso, by the way...my gardener.

Kathy Lee can relate bump!