Isn’t something unknown that people from Mexico, Central America, and South Asia used to come to United States looking for new job opportunities, trying to find the way to improve their lifestyle, this is the middle-class American life that the meatpacking companies in Colorado around 1980’ was offering to the workers. In the article “The New Industrial Migrants” Eric Schlosser says that this good situation just was possible at 80’, because years later this situation turn to abuses that nowadays are seen with the employees, such as poverty wages, with a payment for hour of $9.25, which force them to share rooms in old motels, sleeping on mattresses that cover the floor, providing them a low-class American life. As if this were not enough, health insurance is now offered to workers after six months on the job, vacations pay, after a year, but most of the workers will never get that vacations. It is disgusting how people pass over people just for profit.
Employees are been exploited for the turnover rate, and in some plants, about a third of the people cannot read or write in any language, becoming in the weakest and most prone of being affected for this policies “Greeley”, which is the name of the California’s meat company that is referring the article, is firing and hiring people several times a year, while are keeping in mind that they don’t pay them insurance until one year of labors. Ironically, this is a “great” business where the rich gain through the abuse of the poor undocumented. And people still saying, that in the U.S all in under the law and fair.
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