They come to America and lose their identities. They come from all over Latin America, from all over Mexico-Guadalajara, Michoacan, or Sonora, places as different as California, New York, or Omaha, but here they just become Mexican. To the meat companies they are replaceable workers. We were in constant contact with the workers. Unions and workers are not separate entities.
Workers join unions, and strong unions are strong because of participation from the workers.
We hand-billed outside various plants in Omaha, most significantly Con Agra, Co., a Fortune 500 food producer that has sales of 25.4 billion annually. Hand-billing consists of educating workers about unions, passing out union authorization cards in just a few seconds before they walk or drive away ready to go home after an eight hour shift. For me, another obstacle was language. In high school I took German, but the majority of the other interns were fluent in Spanish. Hand-billing in Omaha summers isn't pretty.