Tyson Foods has closed a pork processing plant in Perry, Iowa, resulting in 1,200 jobs lost. It is not clear how many of these employees were American citizens or recent migrants. However, Tyson is actively recruiting from the New York City migrant population to fill another 52,000 open jobs in Tennessee.
Bloomberg News reported that Tyson uses a database of these migrants to narrow down critical data about the individuals they’d like to hire. Migrants are given lawyers, childcare, and other benefits from Tyson as part of the onboarding process. The food giant’s decision has offended many Americans, including people who were recently fired from the Perry, Iowa pork plant.
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Tyson closes Perry, Iowa plant, putting 1,200 out of work
April 3 job fair planned for Tyson workers at closing Perry plant
Refugee family in Perry at risk of losing everything with Tyson plant closing
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Tyson Foods BOYCOTTED as it sacks 1,300 staff at Iowa pork plant and offers ‘job-and-lawyer’ packages in bid to hire 42,000 asylum seekers in New York | Daily Mail Online
Tyson Foods Faces Boycott After Report Claims Company Hires Migrants
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Tyson plant closing will have ripple effect across community, Perry mayor says – YouTube
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Tyson Foods to hire 52,000 migrants after massive layoffs in Iowa – YouTube
