Life for Haitian Immigrants: Jobs Nobody Wants and Sleeping on the Floor
JBS, the world’s largest meatpacking company, bills itself as the path to the American dream for the immigrants who sta its slaughterhouses and meat-cutting lines.
The company erected employee housing near some plants, where as many as 60 languages are spoken, and workers can learn English after hours and take free community-college courses.
Here in Northern Colorado, though, at one of the company’s biggest beef plants, recently arrived workers from Haiti described grim living conditions…
A spokeswoman for JBS, a Brazilian company with its U.S. headquarters in Greeley, said in an email that the company found “reports about living conditions unacceptable and alarming,” and that it wants all employees to have access to safe housing and the opportunity for a better life. The Greeley beef plant, she said, recently appointed new human-resources leaders and set up new recruitment training programs to ensure compliance with hiring policies…
…Remy posted a new TikTok video saying JBS was paying $23 an hour for jobs on its beef-processing line, which he said was double what entry-level jobs in other places paid. His phone blew up with messages, and soon he had a new business—funneling workers to JBS…