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Their public posture is to try to convince Trump of the importance of Mexican workers to key U.S. industries, including agriculture, meatpacking and the hospitality sector.—Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2025 For African Americans, this process began in the 1970s, decades after the Great Migration, when blacks moved to such cities as Chicago, Detroit, and New York, where many of them found employment in the meatpacking, steel, or auto industry.—Francis Fukuyama, Foreign Affairs, 14 Aug. 2018 Federal law bans children under 18 from working in dangerous jobs, including cleaning dangerous equipment on the floors of the meatpacking and poultry slaughtering plants.—Karina Tsui, CNN, 4 Dec. 2024 Many of these workers are employed in essential industries, including farming, construction, meatpacking, housekeeping, landscaping and restaurant services.—Woai/kabb Staff, Baltimore Sun, 26 Nov. 2024 See all Example Sentences for meatpacking
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