Progressives: Tyson Foods exploits immigrant labor, destroys small towns

It is not often I agree with anything from “Progressives,” but when a reader sent me this piece from Progressives for Immigration Reform I couldn’t believe my eyes.  It is more on the report we posted the other day on Noel, Missouri and the poverty the town is experiencing as it is flooded with mostly … Continue reading Progressives: Tyson Foods exploits immigrant labor, destroys small towns

Missouri: Tyson Foods’ transient labor creates more poverty in small town America

….and more tension among long-time residents. We’ve written so many times about how ‘big meat’ is disrupting the demographics of heartland America that I’ve lost count.  But, here is a story that in its brevity summarizes a pattern that will be very familiar to longtime readers of RRW. And, let me remind you, as I … Continue reading Missouri: Tyson Foods’ transient labor creates more poverty in small town America

Tyson Foods Shelbyville, TN: all sorts of goodies to get and keep immigrant labor

This is the first in what will be many posts in my new category‘ Legal immigration and jobs.’  In fact, it’s this piece of information, now mysteriously missing from the US State Department’s website, that inspired this new category. Clinton brings cheap refugee labor to Iowa I’ve reported on this many many times on these … Continue reading Tyson Foods Shelbyville, TN: all sorts of goodies to get and keep immigrant labor

Rumors abound as Tyson Foods continues to send mixed messages

The Times-Gazette in Shelbyville, TN has a new story today laying out the time line of the developing story we first posted here before Christmas about an alleged terror threat at the Tyson Foods meatpacking plant, the same plant we have been writing about for years! T-G Reporter Brian Mosely asks about the mixed messages … Continue reading Rumors abound as Tyson Foods continues to send mixed messages