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Company that has fired and blacklisted every available laborer: “NoBoDy wAnTs tO wOrK aNyMoRe!!!111!1one!!11!!!”
So… Amazon soon, basically. They are already struggling due to their churn.
So I like to sit in on town halls, all employee meetings, whatever the fuckin big cheese decides to brand their shit. I’m a contractor and usually have no business being there but I blend in, work very hands on and after a short time business forget I’m not just a worker so I get told to do a lot of things I don’t have to do and sometimes it’s fun to follow orders.
One day I questioned a site director when he gave the old “no one wants to work anymore, this generation blah blah blah”. I asked him if he invested (which he obviously did) and if he would continue to invest with a broker who wasn’t making him any money. Broker is getting paid. You aren’t losing money. But you aren’t making money. Balance even goes up a bit but the broker just takes more and you get the same old same old.
He didn’t answer the question. It’s rhetoric that shows an incredibly lazy perspective and every business that echoes it should be called on it immediately.
I don’t contact there anymore. Place was called Mallinkrodt and if you follow the news you’ll know how lovely their reputation is.
For some other context, the plant is now one of the largest in the US
“Today, that same beef plant in Greeley is owned by JBS USA and has grown into one of the biggest slaughterhouses in the country with more than 6,000 workers”
https://sentientmedia.org/profit-over-people-the-meat-industrys-exploitation-of-vulnerable-workers/
All that labor created value squeezed out of thousands of non-citizens considered expendable is exactly how they managed to create the biggest meatpacking plant. Just like how Amazon grows because it also has like a 200% turnover rate in its warehouses.
I can’t remember, was The Jungle written in 1904 or 1980? Because this storyline seems really familiar.
communism is when I can’t get dollar cheeseburgersWe sure they “quit or went missing”?
“promoted to product”
There’s a meatpacking plant in the closest little town to us out here in the Appalachian sticks. It stinks to high heavens from miles away. Nobody seems to work there long. They had some push to import laborers from eastern Europe and for a time had flyers posted around town in those languages. Then, after a while they all seemed to be gone.
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My uncle came back from being a veterinarian in Vietnam shell shocked as fuck, and the only job he could get was at that very Greeley meat packing plant. He worked there until he broke down, and then he was never able to hold a job again. He had horror stories from both Vietnam and the meat plant, but he had a Vietnamese wife he’d married to get out and her GI baby someone had abandoned her with to take care of. A lot of peoples stories are like that, you don’t really have a choice, you’re in a bad situation and you take what you can get.
People in bad situations dependent on poverty wages are less able to whistleblow due to fear of economic consequences. There’s more abuse, more exploitation, and more harm done in any industry whose workers are dependent on their daily wages. That’s why even the most offensive, disgusting jobs in our country deserve a living wage.
