Hundreds in Mississippi seek 24 Tyson Foods jobs paying $8.60 an hour

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Source: AP

About 100 people were in line when the doors opened at the Vicksburg, Miss., WIN Job Center, where applications were taken from those interested in 24 job openings at Tyson Foods' plant in Warren County.

But 90 minutes later, some 900 names of applicants had been written on lists circulating among the job-seekers.

Office manager Timothy Crudup told The Vicksburg Post that Friday's crowd far exceeded the usual number of job candidates seen at the facility, and he said it's a sign of a bleak local jobs market.

"I've been here 11 years, and yeah, it's more than last year, too," he said.

Read more: http://www.nola.com/business/index.ssf/2011/11/hundreds_in_mississippi_seek_2.html

[Rosa Luxemburg]

1. How much is the CEO getting? Occupy Tysons!

[valerief]

4. As CNBC would say, enough for millions of thousands of jobs. nt

[raccoon]

21. Love the cartoon/photo! nt

[Arctic Dave]

2. No wonder they flock up here for 11.00 an hour cleaning jobs.

Sad.

[alp227]

3. But according to the business and immigrant lobby (both on very opposite political sides)

Americans DON'T want those jobs and that's why factories hire undocumented aliens to do them for $3-4/hr! Turns out not to be the case here. However, I recently saw a piece on the PBS NewsHour about a lack of US citizen workers for farms in Alabama.

[roody]

5. People can barely live on 8.60 also.

[alp227]

8. Another thing about the minimum wage...why is it so low as to be unlivable

and thus require the wage earner to rely on public assistance? I thought the free market was supposed to determine affordable prices and wages. But it didn't.

[cstanleytech]

19. The free market never has paid a living a wage but then neither has anything else like socialism.

In the end in any system the powerful have the money while the rest of us are left with the crumbs.

[JoeyT]

12. It's not a lack of people willing to do the jobs,

It's a lack of people willing to suffer the abuse they're used to dishing out to undocumented immigrants that have no choice but to suffer it. When you're paid below minimum wage, never allowed to take breaks, and charged for a drink of water, you're going to quit pretty fast if you've got any choice in the matter.

Imagine what it would look like at a Republican run business where no labor laws were enforced. That's what working at a farm in Alabama is like.

[alp227]

17. But the difference is that US citizens can complain with labor board

unlike illegals who fear deportation.

[Dover]

6. This is why they are killing off the middle class...cheap labor and no benefits. n.t

[ixion]

16. exactly

all by design to implement a Neo-Feudal Age. :argh:

[southmost]

7. we had thousands apply for $8 /hr jobs here in south Texas

for a new Bass Pro Shop.. (kept me thinking who's going to buy stuff there at such suppressed wages?)

[Bozita]

9. The unsuccessful applicants ought to pull themselves up by their bootstraps ...

... and just get up off their lazy welfare-paying asses and find jobs.






Oh?

Oh.

Nevermind.

[AsahinaKimi]

10. Question

Are some businesses offering jobs under minimum wage? If so, isn't that illegal? I know thats what the 1% want, slave wages. They want workers to settle for less..

[JoeyT]

13. Yeah, farms get away with it.

They use production pay and make the amount their employees have to pick so high it's physically impossible to make minimum wage. The target they shoot for is usually around $3-5 an hour.

It's illegal, even with production pay you're supposed to have to pay minimum wage, but they still get away with it. They often claim 8 hour days and make the employees work sunup to sundown and a variety of other tricks to hide it. Even when it's reported no one really does anything about it.

[FreeStateDemocrat]

11. Pukes wet dream come true if only they can now get rid of that pesky minimum wage.

[cutlassmama]

14. 900 applicants for 24 jobs. What happens to the 876 other people

who didn't get those jobs?

[tooeyeten]

15. Happy

These are some very happy corporations, "serfs unite."

:toast:

[dotymed]

18. The plan is definitely working. n/t

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[Roland99]

22. I thought no Americans would work for wages like that?

:sarcasm:

[Islandlife]

23. If no one showed up to apply that would send a strong message to Tyson.....

That their payscale is too low. Boycott all minimum pay job offers.

[Islandlife]

24. If no one showed up to apply that would send a strong message to Tyson.....

That their payscale is too low. Boycott all minimum pay job offers.

[Brigid]

25. And this is just how the investment class wants it.

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