{"id":21887,"date":"2019-09-05T07:05:06","date_gmt":"2019-09-05T11:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/?p=21887"},"modified":"2020-02-21T06:11:08","modified_gmt":"2020-02-21T11:11:08","slug":"illegal-immigrant-workers-lawsuit-immigrationreform-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2019\/09\/05\/illegal-immigrant-workers-lawsuit-immigrationreform-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Meat-Packing Lawsuit Misses the Real Reason Why the Law of the Jungle Rules the Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A recent lawsuit filed by workers<\/a> in the food industry charges that key chicken processors in Maryland have been using illegal methods to hold down wages and benefits in food processing.\u00a0 The case names Tyson Foods, Sanderson Farms, JCG Foods, Wayne Farms, Perdue Farms, Pilgrim\u2019s Pride Corp, Peco Foods, and WSFP Foods, among others in what is expected to be an attempted class action suit. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

All this comes on\nthe heels of complaints that working conditions in food processing have been\ndeclining over the years, partly in response to the systemic use of illegal\nlabor, a practice that undermines the bargain leverage of all workers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, the opponents\nof immigration enforcement never mention this fact. Ignoring the plain-view\nevidence that employers knowingly hire aliens not authorized to work, the suit\nclaims that corporate executives get together and plan their pay and benefits\nthrough illegal collaboration.  They hope\nto prove this through pre-litigation discovery. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In response,\nPerdue replied:  \u201cWe do not believe this suit has any merit,\u201d spokesperson\nAndrea Staub, told Bloomberg<\/a> in an email. \u201cOur\ncompensation philosophy is to pay fair and in some cases above average wages.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wow,\nabove average wages? How would you achieve a figure for \u201caverage wages\u201d if some\npeople weren\u2019t paid above (or below) the average?  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A few years ago, PBS did a series on meat packing<\/a>, and found that there\u2019s been real regression in the industry, even suggesting things aren\u2019t much better than in 1906, when Upton Sinclair wrote his famous expos\u00e9 on the Chicago meat packing industry, The Jungle<\/em>.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBut\nsome critics say America\u2019s meat business,\u201d PBS said, \u201chas been in decline for\ndecades and that the poor conditions found in slaughterhouses and packing\nfacilities today are often little better than those described by Sinclair a\ncentury ago.\u201d  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In\nreal dollar terms, meat packing seems to pay a lot less than it did as recently\nas 1980. Until\nimmigration is properly limited and immigration and employment laws properly\nenforced, the problem will just get worse and worse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A recent lawsuit filed by workers in the food industry charges that key chicken processors in Maryland have been using illegal methods to hold down wages and benefits in food processing.\u00a0 The case names Tyson Foods, Sanderson Farms, JCG Foods, Wayne Farms, Perdue Farms, Pilgrim\u2019s Pride Corp, Peco Foods, and WSFP Foods, among others in<\/p>\n

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