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...Frances Ketcher, 63, doesn't have much longer to wait. She has been employed at a Simmons plant for 24 years, a remarkably long time in an industry where employee turnover often reaches 100% a year. She earns only $6.10 an hour. "To work here you need a weak mind and a strong back," she says with a smile. The pace at the Simmons plant is so frantic that chickens sometimes spill onto the floor, where they lie for as long as an hour. "Sometimes there's a real pile-up," says Grover Myers, a federal inspector at the plant...
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