GREELEY, Colo. (KDVR) — Some migrant workers at the JBS Meat Packing Plant in Greeley are speaking out about what they say are horrible working conditions.
The union representing them, UFCW Local 7, has asked for a federal investigation.
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The JBS Meatpacking Plant in Greeley was where the two individuals from Haiti had hoped to begin to build a better future. FOX31 spoke with them at their union headquarters in Greeley.
They said that from the moment they arrived, promises of a decent place to stay temporarily fell by the wayside. They asked not to be identified and spoke through an interpreter.
“When I got here, it was late in the day and they put us in a room with seven or eight people. There was only one bed,” one of the workers said.
The immigrants said they first heard about what was supposed to be the promise of good jobs and a good living on a TikTok post. But once they started working, they discovered the working conditions were unbearable.