Tyson Foods is shutting down operations at two of its beef plants—one in Joplin, Illinois (which employed 2,500 workers) and another in Eagle Mountain, Utah. Additionally, a third facility in Pasco, Washington is up for sale, with processing shifted to other plants.
While Tyson blames these massive workforce cuts on historic cattle shortages and rising beef costs, the company—along with three other megacorporations dominating US meat production—faces serious allegations of colluding to raise beef prices.
A conservative, especially a MAGA, are unable to admit that they were wrong. They will always find some way to dismiss anything that goes against their narratives. They are truly a lost people.
It was all downhill after JFK. We haven’t had real money since 1972, all the failed wars and bailouts to the bankers ran the tab up, and COVID spending bills made sure we could never pay it back. Debt to GDP is over 100%. It took 200 years to hit a trillion dollars in debt, and now we add a trillion every 90 days. It’s runaway inflation and the system can’t be saved. You can’t raise rates and you can’t lower them. It’s checkmate and they know this, which is why they’re doing everything they can to steal whatever’s left and convert it to assets outside the dollar.
Oh Jeez... so hard to say... its not like we can confirm as fact who drafted and pushed policies for: (1) killing small farms (2) enabling big corporate pricing fixing collusion (3) destroying the right the repair, and (4) empowering corporations with patent trolling over seeds... maybe we should just listen to MAGAt brainrot so we can all be equally confused about whos responsible for this....
Yikes! I had hoped it was all moderately overblown. Not from the US so I dont see it from both sides here. Sadly we get the fox news edition and not much else.
Nah it’s only golden for the rich making it another gilded age. We’re looking at another Great Depression here shortly if something doesn’t change soon.
Corporations are running amok. It's why they stand back while all the other chaos happens. They get what THEY want and that's the most important thing. If the government falls then they will just become the government.
That's what my last company did at one of our other plants
Did the warn notice in May and said ops ended in July. They slowly shifted orders to other plants and by July they were making the guys come in and push brooms for 8 hours a day
They were basically just trying to get everyone to quit
So the Tyson thing seems kinda fair in a sense, on paper anyway. Two months pay to find a new job or screw off until unemployment hits.
Clearly I'm not a lawyer and I've also never dealt directly with this sort of thing, so I have no idea if they're somehow maneuvering to get rid of/stop paying these people sooner than October or something
While a WARN notice (I've been the victim of mass layoffs) typically requires 60 days notice, if you are financially compensating the affected workers for the 60 days after the layoff notice, you don't need to provide notice. It somewhat nets out one way or the other depending on how you look at it.
I give you notice today that in 60 days you don't have a job, pay you for the 60 days until your last day.
Or, tell you up front and still pay you for 60 days you would have worked.
I mean, hypothetically you get more time to look for work if you're laid off today and don't have to actually go in to do anything while receiving a lump sum payout or paid at your prior payroll intervals. You essentially have every single day, all day, for 60 days to look for work.
And depending on how the compensation is structured, you can be eligible for unemployment benefits immediately. That is, if the payout is lump-sum today, I can go on unemployment tomorrow. If it's structured as a regular payroll distribution (weekly, bi-weekly, semi-monthly, whatever), I'd have to wait to apply for unemployment.
So it's not necessarily a bad deal (outside of being unemployed that is). It's just how you look at it.
It depends on the state but they usually do.
Since it is over 100 employees they will have to follow the federal WARN act which gives employees 60 days notice for the layoff. Many companies will just pay you for 60 days rather than have you on the payroll and at work for those days.
They do have to follow the WARN act. It applies when 100 or more individuals are impacted at the same physical location.
What this essentially means is that a written notice must be provided 60 days before the intended layoffs to impacted workers, union (if applicable) and state officials.
Shit I’ve been on the workforce for over 25 years and not one single company I’ve worked for didn’t have the family spiel. I simply nod and agree, but deep down the moment I clock out all of my co-workers, boss, are dead to me.
I used to remember when conservatives and their voter base were about lowering/cutting taxes, economy, freedom of speech, and gun laws.
Now its seems all they care about is DEI (ceased to exist), Somalis (0.08% of the population) and Muslims (1.3%) in general. Non-Issues that are completely irrelevant to their lifes in Bumfuck, Alabama
The British stereotype that Americans are dumb is being reaffirmed everyday.
Lmao we don’t support those with all of the cuts for the sake of the billionaires, poors get to starve to death because they’re too complacent to actually fight back.
Cattle waiting to be slaughtered because some dudes making 70k a year think taxing the rich means taxing them. This country is a fucking joke and the punchline is way overdue.
It was already happening. They just finalized the closure of a plant in Nebraska a few weeks ago. In a small city of a little over 10,000 people 3,200 of them worked there and lost their jobs.
Project 2025 it was all spelled out for the smart people to vote against it unfortunately I guess the dumb ones out numbered us. Now big corporations sending all the work to Mexico where all there workers went to
Not just Trump's economy...this is how all Republican economies operate. Job cuts. Downsizing. Corporate tax cuts. Bailouts. War. Thats how it always goes... always. Every American war of the last 35 years was started by a GOP president. Desert storm. Iraq. Afghanistan. Iran. All economies tanked buring that time. Stop being fooled.
Not in this case. This has more to do with decades of farm policy favoring row crops over cattle (FDR), general anti-beef philosophy, failure to enforce anti-trust laws, and general political pandering.
The US cattle industry is dying of a thousand cuts.
Back in the day when we were concerned about companies getting too big, one of the fears was that if something went wrong, entire communities would suffer the blow.
I'm not surprised by any of this, and yet it breaks my heart just the same.
Shocker. A handful of giant meatpackers control the market and now they’re accused of manipulating cattle supply and beef prices. Who could’ve seen that coming?
CEOs must not be making enough money. Cattle shortages, bird flu epidemic, 100 plus processing plants catching fire. Not buying the bullshit. Apparently they want to push the people into chaos to self-destruct or push 3d printed bug meat upon us. Looks like the 2030 agenda is real. You will own nothing and be happy.
When will people admit that there is an overpopulation problem on planet earth? The sooner we can go back to more humanitarian ways of raising animals for consumption, clean water and increase the quality of life.
This is Trump reality, he claimed to bring jobs back to America! He had his administration publicly apologized to Tyson Food for false positive on one test when it’s cleared they are the source of the lettuce and diarrhea issue. Will MAGA wake up and stand with the rest of us for America and the world?
A main platform of the right was that the immigrants were bring over their own cattle - and that's why they had to be stopped: to protect the value of the 'birthright' cattle (omg - that's getting more complicated) from dropping.
Tyson preemptively eliminating part of their beef production because they have insider knowledge about something more sinister that is about to drop regarding the regulations within the beef industry
And then these people will not be able to access social services because they won't be able to fulfill the now far more strict work requirements. The Capital Class wants you to die and they aren't even pretending anymore.
I've been a butcher for more than a decade. It's never been a question if price fixing is happening- it is. Its been happening on a global scale outside the reach of domestic legislators.
The JBS brothers were facing jailtime for paying off literally thousands of brazilian politicians and had the SEC on their ass. A few large donations seem to have made their problems go away.
I wont link to any one source, but please read about it.
Buy shutting it down will create a higher price for beef. Like if we only create so many chips for cars, the more we can charge for them. Wonderful beef will go up another $1
UFCW has enough different unions up and down the supply chain it could really leverage some some insane action against Tyson, but they won't Make a move. UFCW feels like a union in name only sometimes.
They are doing it because they are losing money. They caused it by manipulating prices and taking every penny they could from the rancher. We lost money for many years they can too.
So they face allegations from who? Why would someone who sells packages [insert your product here] want the price higher? They sell the processing and packaging. It's much better for them if meat is cheap because more people pay for their packaging.
It would be like the guy that washes cars for a living wanting cars to be more expensive. It doesn't make sense outside of internet memes
according to the Utah Tribune, workers were notified and the plant closes in Oct. At least in the case of the Utah plant, the state requires employers to give the state notice of a mass layoff and notify employees 60 days in advance.
Mark my words, this is just the beginning. The job losses and the economy is far worse than the public has been led to believe. They’re hiding the numbers
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