Allen Siegler
Public Health Reporter, Mountain State Spotlight
Public Health Reporter, Mountain State Spotlight
Allen Siegler is the public health reporter at Mountain State Spotlight, a nonprofit newsroom covering issues in West Virginia. He covers a wide array of topics related to health equity in the state, from transgender health care to harm reduction access. Siegler is the recipient of multiple Association of Health Care Journalists scholarships, including the group’s Rural Health and CDC fellowships. He has a master’s degree in public health from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
The more reporting trips we made, the more immigrants we spoke to who described dangerous conditions and persistent problems inside and outside the chicken plant.
Pilgrim’s Pride dona a Moorefield y al condado de Hardy, donde sus plantas emplean a cientos de trabajadores. Los empleados aún luchan por encontrar una vivienda asequible y entender los complejos sistemas de inmigración y de beneficios.
Pilgrim’s Pride fè kèk don bay Moorefield ak Hardy County, kote plant poul li yo anplwaye plizyè santèn travayè. Ansyen ak aktyèl anplwaye yo toujou ap lite pou jwenn lojman abòdab, peye lwaye epi konprann sistèm imigrasyon ak benefis konplèks
Thousands of immigrants have worked at Pilgrim’s Pride’s Moorefield poultry plant, the area’s largest employer. After arrival, they have a hard time finding affordable housing, paying rent and understanding complex immigration and benefits systems.
For over three decades, people have come from all over the globe to work for Pilgrim’s Pride’s Moorefield chicken factory. Inside the plant, immigrant workers shoulder a disproportionate amount of the danger.
What happens when refugees resettle to a small, rural town to work at a chicken processing plant? A new reporting project will taken a deeper look.