Worker shortage concerns loom in immigrant-heavy meatpacking

Worker shortage concerns loom in immigrant-heavy meatpacking

Seattle Times

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SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — When Martha Kebede’s adult sons immigrated from Ethiopia and reunited with her in South Dakota this year, they had few work opportunities. Lacking English skills, the brothers took jobs at Smithfield Foods’ Sioux Falls pork plant, grueling and increasingly risky work as the coronavirus sickened thousands of meatpacking workers nationwide. […]

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