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Sad loss? how can a slaughterhouse/meat processing plant be something desirable in the center of a community? These are/were exactly the types of jobs for low education levels that stop communities from evolving and growing in a positive and sustainable way.

I find that an odd way to characterize well-paying, stable manufacturing jobs.

Another way to characterize the jobs at the old Schneider's plant is as jobs that don't exist anymore, as described in this other Record article comparing the old Kitchener plant to the new Hamilton plant:

http://www.therecord.com/news-story/5453...ers-meats/

While dozens of ex-Schneiders workers have helped transfer their specialized knowledge to the Hamilton plant, the facility also requires a new, more technically trained kind of employee. Three-quarters off(sic) all staff here are skilled or semi-skilled, compared to the Schneiders plant, where as many as 60 per cent were general labourers.

The general trend for prospects for general labourers in society is not so good.


Of course everyone deserves to live in our society, but we've got to make sure that people have skills that are going to earn them a living also.