In the article fast food nation by Eric Schloser he explains that a large number of immigrants from Mexico, Central America and south Asia are traveling to rural Colorado to find jobs at meatpacking factories for the a basic pay of $9.25 an hour. These are jobs that that are paying less then what they used to pay forty years ago, the reason why is because people working at this slaughterhouses cannot speak or write English and therefore they have no choice but to take whatever is offered to them. These immigrants share rooms in motels, sleep on mattresses and some live in batter old trailer a few miles from the slaughterhouse. There is an annual turnover of 400 percent in these factories, many of them quit or get fired every three months, They have no union to represent them, in order for them to get insurance they will have to work over six months to get it and over a year for vacation pay, but most won’t get any because they will quit or get fire before that time comes. Beef companies in Greely love that because they are saving money and won’t have to deal with unions. If a employee quits or gets fired all they have to do is replace the old one with with a new one.
The new industrial migrants (part2)
Congra beef is one of the companies that are trailblazers in migrant labor, this is one of many companies in the united states that are taking advantage of many immigrants that are coming to the united States to look for jobs. These companies have a recruiting team that have hired people to put them to work in their factories, but many times they lie to them by promising rental apartments and steady work, but what the immigrants received instead is a shelter and no health insurance, many times these immigrants have no choice but to accept that is being offered to them do to the fact that they don't speak English and they don't know their rights, Congra beef has even hired buses to import workers and refugees from different parts of the united states (new York, new jersey and asylum seekers from Laos and Bosnia). they even promote these jobs in Mexico. Immigration estimates that about on quarter of all meat packing workers in Iowa and Nebraska are illegal immigrants but Congra beef, deny this claim saying that they only hire legal people to work.
Migrant labor
Migrant labor in the United
states has become one the biggest problems in USA, people
from all over the world are migrating to do jobs that are very dangerous and many
times without vacation pay or sick days
or any union to represent them.
Restaurants, construction jobs, slaughterhouses are some of
the many jobs that people that come to this country are doing. One of the main
reason is because they dont have legal documentation to work
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