Mike said:
Shift supervisors have to schedule breaks so ethnic wars don't erupt in the hallways. Immigrants that work there form gangs and make the workplace unsafe.
Just wonderin Jason. Tyson is notorious for hiring immigrant workers. If immigrants are so much trouble, why is this the majority of the Tyson workforce?
Is it because of low wages? Etc.? Or what?
Oh? Only shared $11 Million? Poor, poor, people. What a pity!
I also said no one was forcing them to work at Tyson. Tyson is likley the highest wage for non skilled labor in the Brooks area. Wages start at either $9 or $11 I can't remember which. After a 3 month probation most get close to $13.
Canada has the same problem America has, few natural born citizens want to work in a slaughter house because it is hard work.
The subsidy was on cattle owned that lost value. Tyson has a 35000 hd feedlot and those cattle were a liability at that time. At the time giving the packers the same subsidy everyone else got was the right thing to do. In hindsight with boxed beef going South they would have done just fine without the subsidy.
AT THE TIME the main concern was making sure they would stay on and help as best they could. They did take huge risks by killing way more cattle than they had sales for opening all the freezers up and renting all the cooler space available. They even had reefers in the parking lots to hold the beef.
Lots of that beef was sold as burger for a buck a pound at picnics to support the beef industry. They sold massive amounts of beef to those who sponsered these picnics at cost.
If the border didn't open to boxed beef it would have broke them, and the rest of the Canadian industry would have been close behind. As it was, they started to cash in, recoup losses and make enough to expand.
Many ranchers have cashed in buying cheap cows, but no one thinks poorly of them.
Using a union website to learn about a company is like asking Haymaker how to ranch in Canada.