NYT: How Tyson Foods and its greedy demand for
cheap immigrant labor ‘saved’ an Iowa town, by
Ann Corcoran 6/1/17
That is pretty much the gist of
the New
York Times story here about Storm Lake, Iowa. The opening paragraphs give
the message that I, and others before me, have been giving for years.
When big global corporations like Tyson Foods discovered cheap (first illegal)
immigrant labor and now legal refugees, the cultural make-up of American
heartland towns was changed forever.
We told you here last November that
the Obama State Department was making Storm Lake a direct resettlement
site. https://refugeeresettlementwatch.wordpress.com/2016/11/22/storm-lake-iowa-filling-americas-dead-spots-with-diversity/
The NYT spins it as a feel-good
story as this town that features a PORK (no Muslim laborers) plant would have
died.
My question is, why would it have
died? If Tyson had kept up the wages over the years, there would be more
generations of rural Americans who would consider this work (if they weren’t
brainwashed in liberal colleges that is)?
It is especially maddening because
immigrant wages stay low and you (taxpayers) help support the families with
your welfare dollars. Wow! What a business model!
I’m posting this story for a reason
other than the fact that it confirms what I have been yammering about for
years—-refugee
resettlement is about labor, not first and foremost ‘humanitarianism’ by our government
and its resettlement contractors. But, I am posting it to give
readers an example of what you can do!
Here are
the opening paragraphs about how Tyson Foods is ‘saving’ a town: STORM LAKE, Iowa —
When Dan Smith first went to work at the pork processing plant in Storm Lake in
1980, pretty much the only way to nab that kind of union job was to have a
father, an uncle or a brother already there. The pay, he recalled, was $16 an
hour, with benefits — enough to own a home, a couple of cars, a camper and a
boat, while your wife stayed home with the children.
“It was the best-paying job you
could get, 100 percent, if you were unskilled,” said Mr. Smith, now 66, who
followed his father through the plant gates.
After nearly four decades at the
plant, most of them as a forklift driver, Mr. Smith is retiring this month. The
union is long gone, and so are most of the white faces of men who once labored
in the broiling heat of the killing floor and the icy chill of the production
lines. What
hasn’t changed much is Mr. Smith’s hourly wage, which is still about $16 an
hour, the same as when he started 37 years ago. Had his wages kept up with
inflation, he would be earning about $47 an hour.
Continue reading here to
see what meatpackers have done to Storm Lake. One more thing, you will see if
you read it all is that the NYT is out to get Rep. Steve King (no
surprise!).
So what can you do?
Readers ask me all the time, what
can they do to help get the message out. I’ll try to write a
comprehensive (as comprehensive as I can) post in the coming days about what
you can do, but here is what one reader did because every little bit helps! (I’ll make
a new category and call it ‘What you can do’ for ideas like this!)
She actually took the time to comment to the NYT. The comments are closed now, but please have a look and see
what readers of the NYT said, here. The NYT probably did not appreciate the
tone of many of them! (When you open that previous link, the comments should
pop-up in the right hand side bar, they do on mine.)
Here is our reader: D Flinchum Blacksburg, VA
It should
be clear from this article that the influx of cheap foreign labor is for the
benefit of the company owners. Pay low wages w/no benefits, but because low
wages don’t often pay for a 1st-world life, shift the cost to the community at
large by gov social services and higher costs for housing, lower quality
schools, and ER health care.
The
refugee program has become a recruiting system for Big Meat. It is made out to
be some great humanitarian system and anybody who opposes it is called a
heartless bigot. This is nothing more than gas-lighting – trying to make people
who see the truth believe something that they can see isn’t so by calling them
names. It’s just like a philandering husband trying to gas-light his wife into
thinking that she is crazy for suggesting he is out partying with Marcia in
Marketing instead of working late when he comes home half drunk with lipstick
on his shirt.
It is
also important to note that most of these new workers and their children
qualify for affirmative action. It is likely that these new workers’ children
who do go on to college will be able to take advantage of programs not
available to the white working class kids who might also be interested in
advancing into the professions.
As one
man in the article said, it’s hard to have ill feelings for someone just trying
for a better life, but the company owners already have a good life and it is
they who should be held accountable. Thus we have Trump in the WH.
See our tag ‘Meatpackers’ for many
more stories about BIG MEAT changing America. Don’t miss this one about
meatpackers worried about the Trump ‘proposed’ slowdown.
US federally-funded refugee
resettlement contractors are paid by the head (by you!) to bring migrant
laborers to your American towns and cities:
https://refugeeresettlementwatch.wordpress.com/2017/06/01/nyt-how-tyson-foods-and-its-greedy-demand-for-cheap-immigrant-labor-saved-an-iowa-town/
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