Trump Doesn't Give A Damn About Workers [View all]
Trump and Radical Republicans like South Dakota Sen. Mike Rounds think the lives of the immigrants who work in meatpacking plants are worth less than the lives of pigs in a slaughterhouse.
Rounds, who asked Trump to intervene to keep meatpacking plants open, cited farmers killing pigs rather than sending them to meat processing plants, to justify sending immigrants and other meatpacking workers back to their jobs—where many will get sick and some will die.
“They will be euthanizing – killing – over a million head of hogs a month, very, very shortly, beginning here in the next one to two weeks,” Rounds, who was previously governor of South Dakota, said Sunday. “There’s no way we can stop that until we start opening up these production facilities again.”
As recently as 2015, almost 30% of meat and poultry workers in our country weren’t citizens, according to a GAO report. Companies like Smithfield Foods and Tyson were hiring more immigrants and undocumented workers because they were less likely to unionize. A Smithfield slaughterhouse in Tar Heel, N.C., took 15 years to unionize.
“Hispanic people are sort of modern slaves of this country,” said poultry worker Carlos Ramos.
https://www.dcreport.org/2020/05/01/trump-doesnt-give-a-damn-about-workers/
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