This article is about migrants workers by Eric Schlosser, Scholsser begins to explain how these mexican immigrants would travel to colorado to work at meat-package slaughterhouse getting payed at low poverty wages. there base pay was 9.25 a hour, they would not start getting health insurance until at lease being on the job for at lease six months and have to be at lease a year in order to get vacation pay. they also lived in poor condition place such as battered old trailers, motel and sleeping on mattresses that cover the floor. also that these worker did not know how to speak or read english. that was a advantage to the company to be able to have turn overs and be able to save money keeping the cost of health insurance low, by layoff or firing the workers and hire some more to replace them.
what is happening to these migrant worker from mexico is really unfair. the name speak for it self "slaughter house", those are signs of dealing with heavy machinery that have sharp blades to cut the meat. i also disagree about the waiting period for 6 months for there health insurance. anything can happen in there first day. a lot of accidence could happen too. so i really feel bad for those that had to go threw this in the 1980s. hopefully now at this modern age of the 20th century things are better in which the policy have change. for a better healthier working conditions.
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