US Meatpacking Industry Faces Immigrant Worker Shortage
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When Martha Kebede’s adult sons moved from Ethiopia to join her in the United States this year, they had few job possibilities.
The brothers took jobs at Smithfield Foods’ meat processing business near Sioux Falls, South Dakota, where their mother lives. The work there is difficult. It also has become increasingly risky. The new coronavirus has sickened thousands of meatpacking workers nationwide.