Posted on 08/13/2024 11:18:21 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
The largest employer in Perry, Iowa, has shut down, and the decision to do so has significantly impacted the entire town.
The Tyson Foods meat processing plant is not modern enough, and upgrades to the facility would bring a hefty bill. Therefore, it has closed up shop, CBS News reported Monday.
“The Tyson plant employed about 25% of Perry’s working-age residents before it shuttered, according to city and county officials. Accounting for workers’ families and businesses directly related to the plant, about 60% of the town is affected by the closure,” the outlet said.
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Chicken or bugs ?
When you consider the population of Perry, Iowa, is around 8000 if no one is out of town, there are bigger fish to fry than this. I’m not sure this will have a major effect on the DOW. This is definately he product of a slow news day.
wy69
A lot of plants are shutting down.
Demand has collapsed for ag products.
China is shopping elsewhere
Replace that with Obama
Interesting town. https://datausa.io/profile/geo/perry-ia
What an awful post. What is wrong with you? Must be a Leftist troll.
This may be head-fake.
Another Tyson plant shut down to renovate its operation, ending the employment of it’s American workers. It renovated, re-opened and hired almost all illegal aliens under a ‘special program.’
Wasn’t there a plant in Iowa that laid off its workers in favor of hiring illegals, or what that somewhere else?
Moving operations to another facility that hires illegals?
“ This is definately he product of a slow news day.”
It’s a really big deal to Perry Iowa.
I remember 1960 when THE CHICKEN MEN had this area in an economic stranglehold till Sam Walton, who had a 5&10 cent store, reorganized as Wal-Mart. He took so many workers from the Chicken Men. One payroll accountant found a way to give the workers an extra 25 cents an hour and not affect the bottom line. the company President said “I am NOT going to give them 25 cents more an hour!” and sent busses to Mexico for the first Hispanic labor in this area.
It was BAD because it took jobs from those here willing to work.
It was GOOD because it broke up the old family cliques and forced the people to accept outsiders who they always hated in the past. (If your grand pappy was not born here you were not welcome!)
Now Tysons, Simmons, and other plants are closing down. Problem: They brought in Somalis to work at one plant with the usual Somali problems. It closed down not long ago. I suggested they send their Somali employees to Guymon OK and work in the Hog Killing industry.
How many were illegals and Somalis? Tyson is natorious for illegal hiring
100% Keerect
11% of town is black and Hispanic.
41 miles from Des Moines, IA.
A slow bleed into 15-minute cities.
Most meat packers seem to prefer non-citizens. And we know what those non-citizens do to small towns.
What do you bet that new plant will hire migrants, where ever it is.
“It was GOOD because it broke up the old family cliques and forced the people to accept outsiders who they always hated in the past.”
What I read on FR never ceases to amaze me. You think people living in a community should be forced to “accept outsiders”? Why? What advantage is this to the people who built this community?
Interesting way to put it, hmmm..
How many employees were US citizens?
Inquiring minds want to know.
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