More applicants applying for Swift & Co.

Bill Jackson, (Bio) bjackson@greeleytribune.com
December 20, 2006

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Almost 800 people have taken out applications for jobs at Swift & Co. in the past month, but those applicants increased dramatically last week.

Linda Perez, director of Weld Employment Services, said her office was seeing about 100 applicants a week from Nov. 20 up to the Dec. 12 raid on Swift's beef packing plant in Greeley, "but we've definitely seen an increase over that since last week," Perez said Wednesday.

She said her office passes those applications on to Swift and has no idea how many of those applying may have found employment at the packing plant. Swift is, she said, conducting on-site interviews.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials detained more than 260 workers at the Greeley plant and nearly 1,300 companywide at five other plants last week.