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Justice department files discrimination suit against AL, NC poultry producers
Posted on 10/9/15 at 6:02 pm
Posted on 10/9/15 at 6:02 pm
So, it's apparently against the law to hire employees who show up for work and don't complain about their terrible job.
Mexican Privilege?
Mexican Privilege?
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Pilgrim's Pride is under fire after the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) filed two lawsuits accusing the company of discriminatory hiring practices.
In a complaint filed Sept. 15, the department's Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) alleges Pilgrim's Pride "systematically discriminated" against qualified African American, Caucasian and female applicants for entry-level laborer and operative jobs at its Athens poultry plant, which closed in 2009.
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Posted on 10/9/15 at 6:06 pm to Evolved Simian
Posted on 10/9/15 at 8:45 pm to Evolved Simian
I haul frozen chicken from Pilgrim's Pride in Russelville,Alabama sometimes. I have never seen a Mexican working there.
It is for a fact, a terrible job, I wouldn't want to work there. I don't know how people do that everyday for years.
There is one place that I pick up at in North Carolina, that is actually a Perdue Chicken plant. All the Employees there are Black, but the company doesn't even provide a break room for them, they don't even have a microwave available. They have to eat their lunch outside,wherever they can find a place to sit down. not even tables or anything. That's a damn shitty place to work right there.
It is for a fact, a terrible job, I wouldn't want to work there. I don't know how people do that everyday for years.
There is one place that I pick up at in North Carolina, that is actually a Perdue Chicken plant. All the Employees there are Black, but the company doesn't even provide a break room for them, they don't even have a microwave available. They have to eat their lunch outside,wherever they can find a place to sit down. not even tables or anything. That's a damn shitty place to work right there.
This post was edited on 10/9/15 at 9:25 pm
Posted on 10/9/15 at 9:08 pm to auggie
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So, it's apparently against the law to hire employees who show up for work and don't complain about their terrible job.
I wonder if it was just attrition.
I work in the service industry and our bottom end jobs skew Hispanic - and not because of any heavy handed hiring practices. It's just that the Hispanics stick it out where the native born employees quit after three weeks.
Posted on 10/9/15 at 10:50 pm to auggie
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I have never seen a Mexican working there.
There are no Hispanic people in Franklin County yet. This plant was one in Athens that shut down.
Posted on 10/9/15 at 10:57 pm to Lima Whiskey
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I wonder if it was just attrition.
It could be, but it wouldn't surprise me if they targeted Hispanic hires.
It is likely discriminatory, but it's also absolutely true that you stand a much better chance of not turning over the position every couple of weeks in a job like that if you weed out the US born candidates (who are almost all either white or black).
Posted on 10/9/15 at 11:02 pm to auggie
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There is one place that I pick up at in North Carolina, that is actually a Perdue Chicken plant. All the Employees there are Black, but the company doesn't even provide a break room for them, they don't even have a microwave available. They have to eat their lunch outside,wherever they can find a place to sit down. not even tables or anything. That's a damn shitty place to work right there.
If there are people there who utilize guns, knives, and/or nuclear and/or chemical and/or biological weapons to force those people to work there then we need to get not only The National Guard but The U.S. Marine Corps involved. Otherwise it sounds like The American Dream. The Texas Dream for certain. And I could not feel opposed to it.
If they don't like working there then they can refuse to work there. God Bless God. And ALL that.
Seriously.
Posted on 10/9/15 at 11:35 pm to Evolved Simian
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it wouldn't surprise me if they targeted Hispanic hires.
It's the simplest answer - and it makes sense.
This post was edited on 10/9/15 at 11:36 pm
Posted on 10/10/15 at 7:41 pm to derSturm37
Well, it is pretty much the only job available in that area. I am just of the opinion,that a huge arse company like Perdue could put forth a bit more effort to make their employees feel more appreciated.
Say what you want, that shite is pretty damn inconsiderate. It gets pretty cold and messy there in the winter, and hot as hell in the summer,and stinks like a cess pool. Flies everywhere.
I am pretty sure that type of treatment gets reflected in employee attitude, and since the product is food,it's bad for all of us.
Say what you want, that shite is pretty damn inconsiderate. It gets pretty cold and messy there in the winter, and hot as hell in the summer,and stinks like a cess pool. Flies everywhere.
I am pretty sure that type of treatment gets reflected in employee attitude, and since the product is food,it's bad for all of us.
This post was edited on 10/10/15 at 9:15 pm
Posted on 10/10/15 at 7:46 pm to Evolved Simian
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Posted on 10/10/15 at 7:47 pm to Evolved Simian
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There are no Hispanic people in Franklin County yet.
Oh, there are definitely Hispanics in Franklin County, They just aren't working at Pilgrims Pride.
Posted on 10/10/15 at 9:02 pm to Evolved Simian
quote:Unpossible.
"systematically discriminated" against qualified.....Caucasian .
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