meatpackers

I haven't seen the Hatch ad, but I'm assuming it was filmed in one of two southern Minnesota packinghouse towns, either Austin (DFL stronghold in southeastern Minnesota) or Worthington (center-right town in southwestern Minnesota), where the meatpackers are the largest employers in town and are paying 35-40 cents on the dollar to the inflation-adjusted wage levels compared to 1985.

More ads MN Politics Guru 2006

In 1946, he sold the first of his skinners to meatpackers in the Chicago stockyards.

Inventor Had Relish for Hot Dog Making Stephen Miller 2011

Sears and other cattle producers suspect meatpackers are quietly cooperating to keep prices low in an area that stretches from Kansas to Nebraska and South Dakota, the region that dominates U.S. cattle production.

Beef Industry: Less Demand Could Mean Lower Quality Meat AP 2010

Producers almost never criticize the industry's leading meatpackers because the companies are valued customers.

Beef Industry: Less Demand Could Mean Lower Quality Meat AP 2010

Such examples have prompted the Agriculture and Justice departments to assign antitrust regulators to investigate the way meatpackers buy cattle.

Beef Industry: Less Demand Could Mean Lower Quality Meat AP 2010

Trade groups for producers and meatpackers showed initial support for the new program.

USDA Proposes Livestock Tracking System Marshall Eckblad 2011

Barbara Kopple's 1976 film, Harlan County, USA, about a coal miner's strike in Eastern Kentucky and her 1985 film American dream about the meatpackers strike against Hormel in Austin, Minnesota document just two of many instances of union-busting that has brought the percent of unionized workers in the private sector down to its current 8 percent.

Gary Anderson: Egypt and Wisconsin: Democracy is Alive and Well Gary Anderson 2011

Once meatpackers work through that rise in supplies, analysts forecast that the number of cattle moving through feedlots will decline.

Tighter Supplies Drive Cattle Marshall Eckblad 2011

Hopefully, the voters in his district will send the Cao off to the meatpackers.

Think Progress » GOP New Orleans Congressman: Health Reform ‘At A Par With Slavery’ Because Of Nonexistent Abortion Coverage 2010

Analysts said buying by meatpackers, the middlemen who slaughter the animals and then sell carcasses and cuts, is picking up ahead of the holiday season amid worries that the number of cattle available will dwindle in coming months as a result of this summer's drought.

Tighter Supplies Drive Cattle Marshall Eckblad 2011