Armybrat
Hunter
Tyson owned the Clintons too, if you recall the 1990s.
Is Tyson shutting down?
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I've lived in Iowa my whole 80 years. Grew up on a farm in Southeast Iowa and migrated up to central Iowa after 18 years. At the time that I grew up there was two major employers in Ottumwa, John Deere and Morrell's processing and packing plant. There was a significant number of farmers who worked at each facility, they liked to work the night shift as that let them have free time during the day for farming activities. The work at these two places offered good income and benefits. In middle school we toured both plants on field trips. After touring the John Deere factory I had a positive experience and I could see myself working there. Touring the Morrells processing and packing plant left a whole different impression on me, like I couldn't eat a hot dog or hamburger for quite some time and I couldn't picture myself working there. I understand immigrants working there now for reduced wages is not a good thing, but I also understand that a good share of our population would not work there no matter how good the wages were.
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The.Tumbleweed
Blackhawk
There are several meat packing plants that do that around here too.
The.Tumbleweed
Blackhawk
Are you trying to say Americans don't want to know how the sausage is made?
There's a working man for every gross job, no matter how bad it is.
A job is a job, and a paycheck is a paycheck. Often, the worst, most disgusting, jobs pay the best.
OP
There was always the "aroma" from the meat packing plant, particularly in the summer. The locals would say "John Morrell's washing his feet!"
Actually, it didn't smell nearly that good.
I wasn't trying to say anything, but there are some Americans who wouldn't. Trust me, in my 80 years of life I have done just about everything. Granted, I was blessed with some opportunities, but things weren't handed to me. And you are right, there is no shame in doing hard work under sometimes very difficult conditions. Quite honestly, if I had my life to do over again, I wouldn't go to college, I only went one year and didn't care for it. But I would try to get a vocational training, I would like to have been an electrician.
I got laid off from the machine shop I worked at one Summer many years ago, and took a job working for a friend of my Dad's septic pumping business. It was hard, disgusting and smelly work. And, I showered for at least an hour every evening after I got home! But, I was a single parent, and had a young toddler Son to do for.
The fellow who owned that business made money hand over fist, and retired quite comfortably... I myself, was elated when I got called back to my other job in the Fall!
Post 18 I provided the link for Smithfield Foods Investor Relations .
Its not being technically correct.
It is a USA publicly traded company.
Go to the link I provided
Post 18 I provided the link for Smithfield Foods Investor Relations .
Its not being technically correct.
It is a USA publicly traded company.
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https://investors.smithfieldfoods.com/
It makes no difference if there are publicly traded company in the US or not. They are owned by Chinese company.
https://www.reuters.com/markets/dea...mithfield-prepares-us-listing-wsj-2023-10-19/
bobski
Hunter
are we talking smihfield hams in va. too?
Who owns the majority of the stock?
[H2]Wh Group Ltd[/H2]
The majority stockholder of Smithfield Foods is Wh Group Ltd, which owns 92.72% of the company's shares1. The ownership structure also includes institutional shareholders (6.58%), insiders (93.75%), and retail investors (0.00%)12.
Gopher
Blackhawk
We have a Tyson plant locally that moved into a facility that Oscar Mayer closed many years ago. While they have a large turnover in employees they one of the few places around that have no problem hiring ex-cons. We have a son-in-law who worked there for three years before finding a job with better pay and benefits say it was not a good company to work for.
