They are changing America by changing the people
According to Religion News Service the recent conflict over prayer times at two Swift meatpacking plants may be the beginning of a Muslim labor movement in the US. Hundreds of Muslim workers at two meat processing plants in Colorado and Nebraska walked off the job earlier this month, protesting their employer’s refusal to grant time … Continue reading Greeley/Grand Island, Somali/Swift mess may be start of something big
The AP has a story last night about how the Somalis, all of them, employed or now unemployed, are going to meet today in Grand Island, NE and try to figure out what to do next. OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Muslim workers involved in a prayer dispute at a Grand Island meatpacking plant are scheduled … Continue reading In my opinion: meatpacking Somalis have overplayed their hand
Update September 3, 2009: Here is the missing link to the Wall Street Journal article sent to me by a reader when I wrote this post yesterday. Yesterday a reader sent me a story written by Miriam Jordan at the Wall Street Journal, but you would know it, the Wall Street Journal wants a … Continue reading Refugees replace illegal aliens at meatpacking plants
We’ve written many times before about the unholy alliance between meatpacking giants like Tyson’s Food and Swift & Co., the government and the refugee resettlement industry. Now, bits and pieces of this alliance are coming into better view. Here is a lengthy segment from the Agribusiness Examiner N.101 11jan01 which I am picking up in the middle … Continue reading Bosnians, Iowa, meatpackers and more
At the end of the Obama Administration (anticipating Hillary in the White House!), the federal refugee contractors were working their butts off to get more offices open in more American towns and cities so that more of you could pay for refugee care while industries (like the hotel industry or BIG Meat) could hire some … Continue reading They Never Give Up! Asheville, NC has Agreed to Refugee Subcontractor Office, 150 Refugees Annually!