REAP/SOW

Workers take on the world’s largest meat processor


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America’s meat supply is produced largely by vulnerable immigrant workers, many of whom have been targeted by the Trump Administration. But a group of workers in Colorado voted to strike against conditions in the JBS flagship plant – risking the loss of their jobs and potentially being deported. FERN staffer Ted Genoways gives an in-depth interview with Tom Philpott about his reporting on the union workers who led the largest meatpacking strike in forty years. This episode comes courtesy of the Unconfined podcast.


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