"Yay! Cheap labor!"
Posted on 03/14/2024 6:19:39 PM PDT by packagingguy
New York City shelters are overwhelmed with migrants...
But for companies like Tyson Foods Inc., struggling to fill unpopular jobs with a U.S. unemployment rate of 3.9%, this new population presents an alluring opportunity.
The food processing company wants to hire 52,000 asylum seekers for factory jobs, offering a starting wage of $16.50 per hour along with benefits. The company understands and is aware that these are jobs that many find unpleasant, such as washing meat, placing the cuts into trays, final inspections for bones and packing meat, but believe this will help the refugees to start a life in America.
For example, the company says that it has allocated $1.5 million a year for legal aid services and will be providing its new employees with temporary housing, on-site child care, transportation, a relocation stipend, and paid time off to attend court hearings and to adjust to their new homes.
The company joined forces with the nonprofit Tent Partnership for Refugees, a network of over 400 major companies committed to helping refugees find jobs, with the plan to hire as many people as possible from the more than 180,000 asylum seekers that have come through New York City’s shelter system. Tyson, for example, already employs about 42,000 immigrants.
According to an Economic Policy Institute analysis of federal data, about 50% of the labor market’s recent growth came from foreign-born workers between January 2023 and January 2024.
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said last week that immigration and labor participation contributed to economic strength.
"The immigration that we saw was a notable factor of 2023 and 2024 economic outcomes, and of course we're aware of that, and it plays a role in our way of thinking about economic policy and in the path of the economy," Powell said.
(Excerpt) Read more at scrippsnews.com ...
I’ve been boycotting Tyson since Bill Clinton got elected president, so this doesn’t effect me much.
There's a few poultry processing plants in my area, and none have seen an ICE raid in nearly a decade. I suspect a certain congresscritter with a sketchy past was keeping the hounds out of the district.
Never bought Tyson since the reign of Clinton AND NEVER WILL
I did not see “Kirkwood” as an offshoot from Tyson to Aldi’s markets....I hope not as the Kirkwood brand is consistent and good as far as I know...I’m only 62...stupid me.
How stupid we Americans for tolerating this.
I haven’t ever, and will never buy Tyson products.
Military men trained in sabotage, sent to destroy our food water and power grid are “above” doing such menial tasks.
Tell the Tyson jugheads the freeloaders are seeking “asylum” and all of its freebies and benefits. They’re not seeking jobs where you have to work and get dirty. If they were looking for jobs, they would have showed up at the Rio Grande garbage site in boots and work clothes, NOT NIKE “AIR JORDANS” AND OUTFITS PEOPLE WEAR TO GO ON CARIBBEAN CRUISES.
Tyson is an evil company. Yet many of you schmuckbags are STILL BUYING and will CONTIUNE to buy tyson products. Because you are weak and stupid and have no principles. And this is why they are destroying you.
This move be Tyson is right out of “The Jungle” by Upton Sinclair.
Agreed.
I worked at a Swifts plant
in Minnesota in 1971 for
$2.35/hr. I was 16 years
old.
Made time & a half on the
muck-out crew loading barrels
of turkey guts/heads onto
trucks bound for the hog
farms and pet food processors
During peak season 6500
turkeys ran thru the plant
daily.
It was quite the motivator
to try and better my
employment prospects.
Stout
Yeah just what I want. Some potential terrorist handling my food.
52,000 Americans lose jobs.
you can see my tyson purchases in my trash can today
How will they handle the requisite I9 to prove you are a citizen of the US?
When I worked at the corporate HQ for Wally, it was easy to notice all the Mexicans Tyson had working at their meat packing plants in Northwest Arkansas. There was one Wal-Mart store that was so overrun everybody took to calling that one “the Mexican embassy”.
This was 20 years ago.
I already boycott conglomerates in general.
How’s about hiring Americans?
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