Smithfield Foods Inc. is looking at a walkout from their union folks in the Tar Heel area. Currently at 300 workers, the strike could become much larger. (gotta love unionized labor) But there is much more to this story.
While workers are complaining about work conditions, “A company spokesman, Dennis Pittman, told The Fayetteville Obsverer
that Smithfield recently complied with a U.S. Immigration and Customs
Enforcement request for the names, Social Security numbers, dates of
birth and gender of workers at the plant.”
About 600 workers were found to have unverifiable information.
But in perspective, the plant employees 5,000 workers and slaughters up to 34,000 hogs a dat running 24/7. This is the LARGEST pork-processing plant in the world!
