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| Language barriers at shuttered Smithfield meat plant where employees speak 40 languages helped turn the South Dakota factory into coronavirus hotspot with 800 cases, CDC says |
| 2020-04-24 |
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #12 Might be the Somali mutation. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2020-04-24 20:36 |
| #11 So a good investigative journalist would look to see if the Chinese owners or their delegates have visited that plant recently. |
| Posted by: 49 Pan 2020-04-24 20:10 |
| #10 40 different languages huh? So just like the LA school system? |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2020-04-24 19:46 |
| #9 Less food. Better food. More fresh food produced locally. |
| Posted by: Lex 2020-04-24 18:29 |
| #8 The Smithfield sale, 2013 IIRC, had to be scrutinized by the US Government before approval, which they went, "Yeah, It'll be fine." |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2020-04-24 18:18 |
| #7 Can't imagine the Workplace Compliance Poster space needed. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2020-04-24 18:00 |
| #6 No reason anyone who can't speak English should be allowed to work in an American factory. No. Reason. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2020-04-24 17:52 |
| #5 You can have: Good and fast. Won't be cheap. Good and cheap. Won't be fast. Fast and cheap. Won't be good. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2020-04-24 17:48 |
| #4 Not just meat. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2020-04-24 15:35 |
| #3 Are all USA meat packing plants are owned by foreigners? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2020-04-24 15:07 |
| #2 For the Chinese owners it's pretty cheap. For the workers and the rest of us it's expensive, but none of us count. |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2020-04-24 15:01 |
| #1 Cheap labor ain't cheap. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2020-04-24 14:55 |