![]() What options do folks have at this point? MARIA GUERRERO: No, actually, it has to be on Saturday.ĬATHY WURZER: Oh my goodness. Will they all have to leave that hotel by Sunday? I know you've been working closely with many of these Highlife workers, especially, as I understand it, 160- I should say 176 who are living in a Mankato hotel. Maria and Gabby, thank you for being with us.ĬATHY WURZER: Thanks. The majority of those workers arrived from the Mexico border. She's been working to find solutions for the hundreds of laid off Highlife workers who live in hotels in the Mankato area. Maria Guerrero is a community health worker with Wellshare International based in Mankato. That's a group that was formed to welcome the hundreds of high life workers on temporary H-2B visas that came to Windom. Gabby Nelson has been facilitating the aid response to the Highlife layoffs through the Windom Cultural Integration Collaborative. For workers who came to this country for those jobs, they'll have to find a new one quickly or leave the US. And soon after that, they filed for bankruptcy.Ĭlosing the plant will have a big reverberation in the area. In early April, Manitoba based Highlife announced plans to close the Windom plant if they couldn't find a buyer. That's at least partially a result of the hog industry taking a downturn this year. ![]() CATHY WURZER: More than 1,000 workers at the Windom Minnesota hog slaughtering plant Highlife face their last day of work tomorrow.
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