• Title: IOWA PLANT CLOSES.
• Guest: Norma de la O
• Additional Guests: Juan Carlos Popoca, Jacobo Hernández, Victor Mar
• Host: Samuel Orozco
• Additional Hosts: Isaac Quiñonez
• Date: SUNDAY, JANUARY 24, 2010
• Description: IOWA PLANT CLOSES. One of the largest companies in Sioux City, Iowa, the John Morrell meat processing plant, plans to close its doors in April. The move will eliminate 1500 jobs, many of them occupied by Latinos.
• Genre: News
• Location: Sioux City, IA.
• Program Number: 6006
• Producer: Samuel Orozco
• Progam Number: 6006
• Publisher: Radio Bilingüe
• Rights: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License
• Subject: Economic Development
• Year: 2010
• Program Name: la_100124.mp3
• Length: 58:48 minutes (53.84 MB)
• Format: Mono 44kHz 128Kbps (CBR)

IOWA PLANT CLOSES. One of the largest companies in Sioux City, Iowa, the John Morrell meat processing plant, plans to close its doors in April. The move will eliminate 1500 jobs, many of them occupied by Latinos. Samuel Orozco, of Radio Bilingüe, and Isaac Quiñones, of affiliate station KWIT, host this show from Sioux City, Iowa.

Guests: Norma de la O, Coordinator, New Iowan Center, Sioux City, IA, www.iowaworkforce.com/centers/newiowan ; Juan Carlos Popoca, Worker, John Morrell Plant, Sioux City, IA; Jacobo Hernández, Local union organizer, John Morrell plant, Sioux City, IA; Victor Mar, worker, 15 years with the company, John Morrell Plant, Sioux City, IA.