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.
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Strange, couldn't they just transfer their workers from the closed plant to plants where they needed employees? They already knew the job, safety procedures, etc. But I guess it's better to hire unvetted people who didn't come to the country legally in the first place.
You might go to Twitter and wonder why everyone is saying to boycott Tyson. This is the reason.
No more Tyson for me.
Tyson is shutting down their meat plants and replacing them with bug plants.
Coincidence?
Here’s the link to the Perry, Iowa closing:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4223964/posts
Tyson buying into insect farms (Americans eat bugs):
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/4191242/posts
Well, that means no Tyson products in my house. Screw ‘em.
Pay more
Tyson needs a serious boycott. These people should not be allowed to work in this country.
I have heard that meat processors have been major employers of “asylum seekers” all along. I wonder if Tyson is one of them.
Meat Packers have always been one of the major advocates of illegal immigration.
In the old days 60’s early 70’s Packing plants were some of the best paying jobs around. Many college grads came back to their hometown to work in the plants. IBP changed all that.
Of course they do, because that's all they hire there. And since Tyson's connection to the Clintons became known all those years ago, I won't buy any Tyson products.
Reminds me of Upton Sinclair “The Jungle”
Get woke...go broke.
People on Twitter are saying to Bud Light them.
Tyson is finishing up in the food business
The more tattoos, the better.
Agreed. I'll never buy any of their products again.
Tyson Foods U.S. dead to me along with InBev/Anheuser Busch.
"Eat bugs, own nothing and be happy" or else.
It's no longer a "Conspiracy Theory", it's an actual "Conspiracy".
Buy from your local farmer.
Slave labor wanted.
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