Meatpacking Plant Offers Clues to the Impact of Immigration on Jobs - WSJ.com:
Any article about how hard it is to find workers with this phrase in it should be ignored:
"One thing JBS didn't do was to sharply raise pay"
The problem with US manufacturing: higher productivity and lower worker pay. It doesn't have to be that way.
"Still, wages have fallen in meatpacking plants over time, as plants relocated to rural areas, unions weakened and jobs grew more mechanized. Production workers in meatpacking earned more than $13 an hour in June. In the 1980s, the pay was more than $19 an hour, adjusted for inflation."
Any article about how hard it is to find workers with this phrase in it should be ignored:
"One thing JBS didn't do was to sharply raise pay"
The problem with US manufacturing: higher productivity and lower worker pay. It doesn't have to be that way.
"Still, wages have fallen in meatpacking plants over time, as plants relocated to rural areas, unions weakened and jobs grew more mechanized. Production workers in meatpacking earned more than $13 an hour in June. In the 1980s, the pay was more than $19 an hour, adjusted for inflation."
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