Hundreds of Iowa Meatpacking Employee Visas Revoked

Hundreds of Iowa Meatpacking Employee Visas Revoked

At a July 15 city council meeting in Ottumwa, Iowa, Mayor Rick Johnson announced that JBS — the largest meat processor in the world — was issuing 200 notices to employees from Haiti, Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela that their work visas had been revoked. He said that the company was sending affected employees a letter and would also be meeting with each employee individually, where they would be told that their employment at JBS was over — and tha…