Posted on 04/26/2020 10:23:24 AM PDT by rintintin
Language barriers were a key issue at the Smithfield meat processing plant that was shuttered earlier this month after a coronavirus outbreak infected 800 employees, according to a report from the Centers for Disease control and Prevention.
The CDC report issued this week criticized a number of practices at the plant in Sioux Falls, which processed 5 percent of the nation's pork before it was shuttered indefinitely on April 15.
The massive plant employing 3,500 is just one of a dozen American meat packing plants to shut down this month after outbreaks, spurring pork and beef shortages and higher prices for consumers.
The CDC report says that at the Sioux Falls plant, which has a large immigrant workforce, some 40 different languages are spoken, with the top 10 being English, Spanish, Kunama, Swahili, Nepali, Tigrinya, Amharic, French, Oromo, and Vietnamese.
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Well, that and the fact that the company - which I always thought was iconic American -is owned by the Chinese.
Remember, probably have of the Republicans are RINO, and are beholden to the import foreign workers and transfer as mus\ch American wealth as we can overseas.
They also listen to the LSM and if they boo, the Republicans are bad ask them what they need to change because they want the LSM to like them, and to hell with their voters, they are the enlightened one.
But, remember, this travel by corporate officials occurred weeks after Trump cancelled airline transport from China.
How did they get there ?
Private, or corporate plane ?
Smithfield corporate had already notified that there would be a pork and meat shortage since they were shipping more product to China.
Last year, China already had a known pork virus that killed more than 1/3 of their new-born piglets, creating a shortage.
Now we have a coronavirus that impacts production workers and employees in processing plants, resulting in shut-down.
“If they are legal immigrants and not illegal aliens, they either are American citizens or on their way to becoming American citizens (Americans).”
When we have unemployment in America, we don’t need immigrants either illegal or legal. We don’t need immigrants to take jobs (at lower wages) that could otherwise go to unemployed Americans.
If you disagree, then you’re still living in the George Bush Republican Party, the pre-Trump GOP.
the Chinese masters “
My understanding is that slaughterhouses around the country have been hiring mainly low-wage immigrants, of doubtful legality. Whether or not the owners are Chinese. There was a big raid on an Iowa packing house a couple years ago, it was filled with illegals. The owners weren’t Chinese.
My point: The issue here is corporations hiring nonEnglishspeaking immigrants , at dirt wages, instead of Americans. That has to stop. Focusing on the Chinese ownership of this particular plant is somewhat of a diversion from the immigrant-labor issue, because the owners of all the processing plants are doing it - AND THEY NEED TO BE FORCED TO STOP.
Was it Metrobank, BPI, Banco De Oro?
All forms and communications for these Filipino banks and probably most others in the Philippines are in English...
South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem told Fox News last week that '99 per cent' of the Smithfield infections 'wasn't happening inside the facility' but rather inside workers' homes 'because a lot of these folks who work at this plant live in the same community, the same buildings, sometimes in the same apartments.' A Smithfield spokesperson reportedly blamed cultural differences in the workplace for the speed of the virus' spread.
The spokesperson told BuzzFeed News on Monday that it is hard to know 'what could have been done differently' given the plant's 'large immigration population.'
'Living circumstances in certain cultures are different than they are with your traditional American family,' the spokesperson said.
This is a common factor for all of the meat packing plants in the midwest and it also applies to many cities where housing is scarce and very expensive. This is the first article that I have seen that cites this factor as a part of the problem. Governor Noem has figured it out.
My understanding is that slaughterhouses around the country have been hiring mainly low-wage immigrants, of doubtful legality.
“This is a common factor for all of the meat packing plants in the midwest and it also applies to many cities where housing is scarce and very expensive.”
Because owners are paying dirt wages and choose to import immigrants (mainly illegal?) who will work for peanuts, instead of hiring US citizens and legal US residents.
Tucker has highlighted how some midwest small towns have had their demographic character totally changed overnight by these packing-house operators who import tons of cheap labor from other countries.
My grandparents also came from Eastern Europe. True that they had to "learn English", but I really wish I had recorded them back in the day. I guess it was English, though, at times, I needed a Grandparent-to-English dictionary to figure it out!
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No. It was the Chinese (Chicom) owners coming from Wuhan to inspect their property that infected the plant. Has nothing to do with 40 languages.
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> I guess it was English, though, at times, I needed a Grandparent-to-English dictionary to figure it out! <
I actually had one of those. I made it myself. It was a small notebook. Whenever my grandparents said anything in Hungarian, I would make note of it, then try to use the phrase the next time I visited.
I lost track of my notebook after they passed away. I wish I still had it.
Is there somebody here with a knowledge of how long it would take to deep clean a large facility like that and safely re-open it for business? I don’t want to make some offhand remark that would put me in a league with Bloombug’s farming remarks.
In 1960, meatpacking workers earned 15 percent more than the average manufacturing wage in the U.S.. By 2002, they were earning 25 percent less than the average in manufacturing. Government data also show that between 1980 and 2007 real wages in the industry, adjusted for inflation, dropped by a staggering 45 percent.Nov 18, 2009
Center for Immigration Studies › La...
Labor Market Effects of Immigration Enforcement at Meatpacking Plants in Seven States | Center for Immigration Studies
This is one more reason all immigration should be stopped. Or at the very least go back to pre-1965 levels. 300,000 people a year, that’s all.
“The good news is that the owners who decided to hire low wage immigrants instead of Americans are seeing their businesses closed.”
The meat packing business is an interesting story....They used to be some of the best paying jobs in the country. I knew a lot of guys that went to college, got a four year degree and came back only 6to end up working in the packing plant.
Not because other jobs were not available but because it was the best paying job out there, degreed or not.
Then IBP came to town and changed the industry forever. Hiring illegals or temporary legals in the mid 70’s for just a bit above minimum wage forced the entire industry to follow suit to compete. It’s been that way ever since.
I actually had one of those. I made it myself. It was a small notebook. Whenever my grandparents said anything in Hungarian, I would make note of it, then try to use the phrase the next time I visited.
I lost track of my notebook after they passed away. I wish I still had it.
What a charming story. :) My Grandfather had a heavy accent but spoke good English, though every now and then another word crept in and I got the meaning from context. Never did keep a handmade dictionary though. ;)
And yet, somehow, Americans ate more red meat in those days than now, despite the higher-priced labor.
That’s about 37k a year
In contrast, before immigrant labor was brought in, meat packers made good money, some of the highest of US factory jobs
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