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2020-04-24 -Short Attention Span Theater-

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

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Posted by Skidmark 2020-04-24 14:27|| || Front Page|| [11124 views ] Top

#1 Cheap labor ain't cheap.

Posted by swksvolFF 2020-04-24 14:55|| 2020-04-24 14:55|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2020-04-24 15:01|| Front Page Top

#3 Are all USA meat packing plants are owned by foreigners?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-04-24 15:07|| 2020-04-24 15:07|| Front Page Top

#4 Not just meat.
~~Most~~ Many cash/labor businesses (minimum wage:living on tips) fall under ~~inspection of money laundering statutes~~ foreign ownership.

Posted by Skidmark 2020-04-24 15:35|| 2020-04-24 15:35|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2020-04-24 17:48|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2020-04-24 17:52|| Front Page Top

#7 Can't imagine the Workplace Compliance Poster space needed.

Posted by swksvolFF 2020-04-24 18:00|| 2020-04-24 18:00|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2020-04-24 18:18|| Front Page Top

#9 Less food. Better food. More fresh food produced locally.

Posted by Lex 2020-04-24 18:29|| 2020-04-24 18:29|| Front Page Top

#10 40 different languages huh?

So just like the LA school system?

Posted by Procopius2k 2020-04-24 19:46|| 2020-04-24 19:46|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2020-04-24 20:10|| Front Page Top

#12 Might be the Somali mutation.

Posted by Skidmark 2020-04-24 20:36|| 2020-04-24 20:36|| Front Page Top

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