The food conglomerate Tyson Foods has recently stirred up controversy with their recent announcement that they will be hiring a swath of unregistered immigrants to fill their vacant positions, after the company has been laying off thousands of Americans these past years.
One year ago to date CNBC reported that Tyson would be closing two chicken processing plants, affecting roughly 1,700 jobs; and just earlier this week the company announced they would be shutting down an Iowa plant that will affect 1,200 jobs, Fox Business reported.
But now it has been revealed that Tyson will be hiring thousands of illegal aliens shipped to New York, and give them jobs instead. Bloomberg explained more in a report titled “Tyson Is Hiring New York Immigrants for Jobs No One Else Wants.” The paper wrote:
For politicians in Washington and New York City, an unprecedented stream of asylum seekers presents an intractable problem with no easy answers. For companies like Tyson Foods Inc., struggling to fill unpleasant jobs with a US unemployment rate of 3.9%, this new population presents an alluring opportunity.
Tyson is joining the nonprofit Tent Partnership for Refugees, which was founded by Chobani yogurt magnate Hamdi Ulukaya, with a plan to hire some of the 181,400 migrants that have come through New York City’s intake system over the past two years. The meatpacker already employs about 42,000 immigrants among its 120,000-strong US workforce.
We would like to employ another 42,000 if we could find them.
Said Garrett Dolan, who leads Tyson’s efforts to eliminate employment barriers such as immigration status or the need for childcare.
On a cold day last month, Tyson officials met with immigrants at Chobani’s offices in Manhattan and hired 17 asylum seekers from Venezuela, Mexico and Colombia for jobs at its plant in Humboldt, Tennessee. Last week, it hired 70 more.
It’s a tiny drop in the bucket when compared with the surge in new arrivals, but could point the way toward a partial solution to address companies’ labor shortages as well as the challenge of finding work for eligible immigrants. Tent is also working with four other companies seeking to hire migrants, including the airline food packager Gategroup Holding AG, which is backed by Singapore wealth fund Temasek. Bloomberg LP, the parent company of Bloomberg News, has partnered with Tent to support refugee populations.
Asylum hopefuls are typically eligible to receive work permits 180 days after they apply for the legal status, though some can receive them sooner. Many will wait years before their first immigration hearing due to court backlogs, but they’ll be allowed to work in the meantime.
Tyson is constantly in search of workers to fill jobs in its factories — tasks like washing meat, placing the cuts into trays and doing a final inspection for bones. Dolan says the company expects about 40% of the 100,000 people in these roles will leave each year, a statistic he says is standard across the meatpacking industry. To meet this need, he said, Tyson plans to hire about 52,000 people at that wage class — which starts at $16.50 an hour, plus benefits — in 2024 alone.
“We’re recognizing there’s not a lot of people that are going to be working labor-manufacturing jobs that are American,” Dolan said. A large portion of new hires “are going to come from refugees and immigrants, so we’re now in the business of strategically thinking that through.”
The food industry has long been a destination for immigrants, and it carries a checkered past of employment and workplace safety violations. Last year, Tyson and Perdue Farms Inc. were among food producers that came under investigation from the US Department of Labor after a New York Times report found contractors illegally employed migrant children at companies’ plants. The company says it has zero tolerance for child labor and doesn’t allow the employment of anyone under the age of 18 in any of its facilities.
Tyson is also investing in retaining immigrant workers, having earmarked $1.5 million a year for legal aid services in 2023 and 2024 and providing paid time off for workers to attend court hearings. Last year, Tyson paid for 1,317 workers to become US citizens.
The migrant hires and other new entry-level workers receive on-site childcare and transportation, as well as English classes for those who want them. The company is providing its new employees from New York with temporary housing, a relocation stipend and paid time off to better acclimate to their new lives in Humboldt.
“They’re very, very loyal,” Dolan said. “They’ve been uprooted and what they want is stability — what they want is a sense of belonging.”
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
As Proverbs 3:33 says, “The curse of the LORD is in the house of the wicked: but he blesseth the habitation of the just.” The curse of the Lord is a real thing and you are seeing it right here with Tyson.
[43] The stranger that is within thee shall get up above thee very high; and thou shalt come down very low. [44] He shall lend to thee, and thou shalt not lend to him: he shall be the head, and thou shalt be the tail. Deuteronomy 28:43-44
This is absolutely so disgusting and vomitous. All within the same week Tyson axes 1,200 jobs in Iowa, as they are then brining on board illegals to the job for less – and then the moxie of Bloomberg to print that “Tyson is constantly in search of workers to fill jobs in its factories.” But that’s what the curse of the Lord looks like on a nation that hates him and his word, and is now forcibly displacing the citizens with illegals.
As I have said before, the core reason why this country – the big corporations, the state and local governments, the military industrial complex – continues to flood this land with illegals and undocumented workers is because they need cheap labor; people who are willing to do grunt work and menial tasks for pennies, rather than actually pay Americans a real, sustainable wage; but that of course comes with extra taxes and paperwork. This is the corporate machine at work, this is the military industrial complex at its finest; and above all, is the hand of God against this once blessed country.
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I have not eaten from Tyson in years, and especially now with this news, I encourage brethren and Americans to abstain from their products. Support your local farmers and grow your own food. It’ll save money in the long run and be much heathier for you.
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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couldnt the 120,000 start a class action lawsuit?
Maybe but it’ll probably get buried in court and probably to no avail, and by that time so many other jobs will have been lost.
Even when I was eating store bought chicken, I’ve refused to buy Tysons for at least 3 decades, for hiring illegals and for the grossest of their factory farms. Poor chickens! I prefer to eat meat humanely raised. With freedom to go outside and to live as the animals that they are. Chickens like their coop, but they LOVE running outside in the mornings. And they don’t like being cramped inside amidst all that poop and germs and waste. Yuck.
I have been boycotting Tyson Foods since I found out the deep ties they have had with Hillary Clinton going back to her Arkansas days.
I wasn’t aware the OLD HEN was tied to Tyson In fact, I had no idea Tyson was this bad. I have been buying Tyson up till today, but now the ax has come down on them in my house. No more Tyson. I hope Perdue is still good. We are running out of chicken brands, but that’s what they want us to do, so they can feed us the bugs that the chickens were supposed to eat.
I would not recommend of the major big brands. If you want chicken and eggs I suggest networking with local farmers, who do not use GMO chickens, who do not feed them GMO feed, and are pasture-raised.
My question is; how is this even legal, hiring aliens instead of citizens. It reeks of tyranny. We get Good Rancher meat and chicken, very good and sourced from local ranchers, not stores.