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douglas9

(4,358 posts)
Fri May 1, 2020, 09:29 AM May 2020

Trump Doesn't Give A Damn About Workers

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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Trump Doesn't Give A Damn About Workers (Original Post) douglas9 May 2020 OP
Pork before testing and workers. safeinOhio May 2020 #1
When the carrot colored clown Ohiogal May 2020 #2
Exactly right. benfranklin1776 May 2020 #3

Ohiogal

(31,660 posts)
2. When the carrot colored clown
Fri May 1, 2020, 09:50 AM
May 2020

Puts a stop to all immigration ... under the guise of “protecting American jobs” ... who is going to work in these nasty and demanding jobs? I don’t think you’ll find too many Americans clamoring to work in these places.

benfranklin1776

(6,427 posts)
3. Exactly right.
Fri May 1, 2020, 09:55 AM
May 2020

It’s clear with every rancid action Trump and his plunderous cult takes. As usual, while conning workers into trying to support him his words are proven to be hollow abject lies. By his wretched deeds we know the true con man. At the same time he’s ordering these workers to risk their lives and health he refuses to mandate the plants adopt safety measures for the workers. He could do so, but then it would have resulted in the owners having to spend some of that filthy lucre they’re earning on the backs and bodies And his sycophantic Rethuglican governors threatening the workers with starvation if they refuse to go back to one of these life threatening reservoirs of disease. Once more we see the core principles of the Rethuglicans on display: people are expendable, but profits are sacrosanct. No meat plant or any other business should be permitted to reopen without implementing the OSHA/CDC guidelines to protect workers as they are a menace to their employees and the community in their current disease culturing state.

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