Blog 15

Part I

In “The new industrial migrants (part I)” from Fast Food Nation Eric Schlosser states that in the beginning 80 years 20 century a lot of people arrived to Colorado to get job at slaughterhouse from Mexico, Central America, and Southeast Asia. According the article, during one and half year was employed more than five thousand employments at the Greeley Beef plant, and some of them were fired every three months. Author said that an annual turnover rate was about 400 percent. Nowadays, despite of some adjustments regarding salary, insurances, benefits, and so on the situation with hire and fire remains same. Eric Schlosser mentioned Arden Walker’s explanation about having such turnover rate. The reason is because the employers don’t want to pay any benefits that workers can accept after six months such as medical insurance, sick days, or vacation after one year.


Part II
In “The new industrial migrants (part II) Eric Schlosser state that IBP was interested to hire immigrants for meatpacking works because immigrants agree to work for lower money then American citizens, and they don’t require some benefits. Therefore, the company sends their recruiters throughout the United States, and they try to recruit people among immigrants and homelessness.

I agree with these both articles and I also can always observe how employers hire immigrants especially undocumented because they agree to work even for less money that employers can save their money. Undocumented immigrants are usually people, who force to come to another country for earning money for their families who are living in difficult financial conditions. They are satisfied just with money, they don’t ask any benefits. I know most of them have been living in terrible conditions. They are used to sleeping a covered floor by mattress in the room where sleep more than enough people, that room they can use for preparing the meal, and for using a toilet. It’s really an insanitary condition. All of them work on hard job like construction, slaughterhouse, and so on, and get scanty money. Moreover, native people don’t want to get these low paying hard works, so many employers hire immigrants at those position. In addition, the employers don’t need spend money to buy them medical or life insurances. These clauses are convenient for them.

Sometimes, some of employers follow the “rule” that describe in the first article that also allows them to save money. I remember one my friend experienced same situation. She was hired in not small company and fired after three months. She didn’t have any bad commends during these months. So, she was surprised by that case. After few months she found out that her friend, which she had made her friend when she came to that company, also was fired from that company after three months her arriving. Then, they both learned that their demission connected with medical insurance that the company has to provide workers after three months. They both didn’t think about it because they both are young ladies and at first, they didn’t care it.

In short, I think the companies have to be honest and to warm people that they need workers only for three months.