blog 14 "The new industrial migrants"

The new industrial migrants were treated as disposable robots in meatpacking plants in which the job is very jeopardous. Most immigrants in meat packing plants are either undocumented immigrants or H-2A which means temporary working visa. Thus, for industrial meatpacking companies, hiring them when they need, and dumping out them when they do not need is very common. Especially, the workers got fatal injury and no longer be able to work. One idea I counted significant in the passage that “ there is a 100 percent turnover rate annually," These meatpacking companies can change the workers as many times as they can in order to get lot of benefits. These companies use the legislation that companies must give benefits such as health insurance, vacation when workers work more than six months.  These companies use the law in a wrong way so the worker are just used as the same as meats as for the companies' benefits. For instance, building window cleaning job is the most dangerous jobs, American are mostly avoid this job. Thus, the window cleaning agency hire illegal people, or they offer H-2A to the foreigner to work. Many cleaners fall down and die because there is not such a good protection of tool for hanging on the window. Even they die, the company do not care of them because the company can hire as many as they can. Not only that, the dead worker's family does not want to report to government because they are illegal. As Eric Schlosser, the immigrants are victims in meatpacking places. They work hard in the worst and dangerous circumstances, and they are dumped out when they are no longer useful from the company. Now, the government should make strict legislation for immigrants, so the immigrants, who work for Americans, can work fairly