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E-Verify, E-Shmerify. Fuggedaboutit.


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2020 Apr 30, 4:22am   535 views  3 comments

by Al_Sharpton_for_President   ➕follow (5)   💰tip   ignore  

Somewhere between 30 and 50 percent of the meat-packing workforce is made up of undocumented workers from Mexico, Guatemala, and El Salvador as well as immigrants from East African nations. As Smithfield Foods’ statement on the Sioux Falls outbreak indelicately put it, the living conditions of these immigrants are “different than they are with your traditional American family.” Get it? They are in overcrowded houses with inadequate sanitation. “They” aren’t like “us”. Since many — perhaps a majority — of them lack legal status, they are unable to defend themselves against exploitative or coercive labor practices. As recently as last August, ICE agents were rounding them up by the hundreds for deportation.

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2020/04/the-price-of-meat.html

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1   HeadSet   2020 Apr 30, 11:33am  

It appears Smithfield foods is a Chinese owned sweat shop.
2   🎂 Tenpoundbass   2020 Apr 30, 11:37am  

They've all got to go back, and bust up the Monopolies, this crisis real or otherwise, has shown us. We can never depend on one source of anything for anything ever again.

Not in medicine, not in hard goods, not in our food and energy.

Bring back private family business with a vengeance. Tax large corporations the lessen the burden to navigate through the tons of regulated red tape they lobbied for to create the mess we have now.
3   MisdemeanorRebel   2020 Apr 30, 11:51am  

Reminder: The price of meat was much cheaper back when unionized Americans making $10/hr in 1988 were working there.

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