Final 12 months, Tyson Meals shuttered a meat processing plant in Perry, Iowa. The corporate stated it made the choice as a result of the plant was previous and inefficient. However the closure was devastating for the residents of Perry. The plant had employed some 1200 employees in a city with a inhabitants of solely 8000.
On the similar time, Tyson was additionally busy hiring employees elsewhere. It was working with a non-profit group that helps join corporations with asylum seekers and refugees in search of work. Tyson finally employed tons of of recent employees by means of this partnership.
Was this only a coincidence? Or had been these two tales truly one story – a narrative about one of many nation’s greatest meat processors forcing out American employees and changing them with migrants? On right now’s present we check out the controversy surrounding Tyson’s hiring strikes and the way issues look from the angle of the employees themselves.
Right this moment’s episode was hosted by Carlos Garcia and Amanda Aronczyk. It was produced by Sam Yellowhorse Kesler with assist from Emma Peaslee and edited by Keith Romer with assist from Jess Jiang. It was engineered by Cena Loffredo and fact-checked by Sierra Juarez. Alex Goldmark is Planet Cash‘s government producer.
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