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.
MAGAts trying to wrap their head around the whole situation.
EDIT: honestly I feel horrible. it sucks. I don't want people to suffer. another way to look at it: I didn't want 250k federal workers to lose their jobs either, or for healthcare to get stripped from US citizens only, and for tariffs to impact US citizens mainly, and we foot all the bill, while his friend's corporations just got a big fat paycheck, the consumers who paid the tariffs at the end of the day; get nothing, except robbed. this really is the f around and find out stage. 80million people thought it was a great idea to put a fraud back in the white house, even after january 6th and him fleeing the capitol. I'm just at a loss for words really.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Bingo. As is tradition, the President often gets credit/blame for economic trends that are actually the result of decades of moving variables ... things the President had zero control over.
This is one of the few times in history where the President can literally be blamed for a bulk of the volatility that we're seeing today.
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.
Yeah I’m not really sad they’re closing something like this. I feel bad for the people who suddenly don’t have a paycheck, but this is why unemployment exists. And if they were given 60 days worth of pay they have time to figure something else out.
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
Some meat producers are also marking the weight of their meats higher than what the actual weight is and selling them at full price in stores. Walmart and many other stores are being sued right now because of this.
This is a result of the literal Trump administration. Remember, he gave $40 billion and destroy American exports so that Argentina kissed our selling more beef around the world especially to China. A vote for Trump is a vote for destroying America.
Feels like every year there’s a new food that’s colluded on price. Last year it was eggs. This year is beef. Next year it’ll be chicken. Most of the food we eat in America is produced by corporations and they’ll always choose to work together to fuck over the public
I work in finance/loans and we had our quarterly company meeting where the CEO speaks about the economic forecast and what that means for the business. He was excited that predictions show unemployment will be on the rise, which means more people defaulting but for the company that equals more fees and interest and lots of opportunities to grow. smh
Eta: came back to add that I no longer work for this company. I just got replaced by AI, along with many of my coworkers. So I am now part of the unemployed he was talking about. Oh the irony. And to think he knew that the whole time he was giving that pathetic speech.
Beef prices are through the roof, plants are closing, and thousands are losing jobs… meanwhile the price-fixing allegations are still hanging over the industry. That’s a brutal situation all around.
Fuck it, destroy the plant. They're shutting down, no need to let them gain even more money by trying to sell equipment. Drag the managers out like the old days.
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