Thursday, February 22, 2007

The border is THAT way...

Hundreds leave N.C. slaughterhouse
02/19/07 11:14 pm (GMT)
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - Hundreds of workers at a Smithfield Packing Co. plant have quietly left their jobs or stopped showing up for work following a crackdown on illegal immigrants employed at the world's largest hog slaughterhouse.
Many have submitted resignation letters and collected pay for unused vacation, while others identified by the company in November as having unverifiable employment documents quit without notice, company spokesman Dennis Pittman said.In all, Pittman said about 300 employees had left the massive plant in Tar Heel on their own as of Monday...

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