Tyson Foods: Fueling the Low-Wage Economy
Working families are slipping, struggling to keep what they’ve worked so hard to get. Workers in this country are seeing their way of life on the verge of collapse as they work longer and harder for less. Companies like Tyson Foods are driving wages down and poverty up. Tyson’s agenda is to reduce wages to the level of its lowest paid plants, rather then to raise wages with increased productivity and profitability. Companies like Tyson are fueling the low-wage economy.
With 30 million working Americans--one of every four U.S. workers--at the official poverty level, it’s time to transform the low-wage economy into a living wage economy.
Over the last 20 years a number of myths have arisen to justify this low-wage economy. Get the facts and dispel the myths that perpetuate low-wage jobs.
Myth #1: Low-wage work is merely a temporary step on the ladder to a better job.
Myth #2: Training and new skills will solve the problem.
Myth #3: American employers must keep wages and benefits low if they are to compete in the global marketplace.
Myth #4: Low-wage jobs are merely the result of an efficient market.
The fight at Tyson in Jefferson, Wisconsin, is a fight for all of working Americans. The fight in Jefferson is about the shape of our economic future. Will workers have wages that keep consumer spending up and the economy growing; or, will we sink even more into a stagnate economy where a few have too much and too many have too little?
Find out more about the low-wage economy. Read "The Betrayal of Work: How Low-Wage Jobs Fail 30 Million Americans," by Beth Shulman.
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