Definition of "meatpackers" [meatpackers]

• Plural form of meatpacker. (noun)

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• "I haven't seen the Hatch ad, but I'm assuming it was filmed in one of two southern Minnesota packinghouse towns, either Austin (DFL stronghold in southeastern Minnesota) or Worthington (center-right town in southwestern Minnesota), where the meatpackers are the largest employers in town and are paying 35-40 cents on the dollar to the inflation-adjusted wage levels compared to 1985."
• "Barbara Kopple's 1976 film, Harlan County, USA, about a coal miner's strike in Eastern Kentucky and her 1985 film American dream about the meatpackers strike against Hormel in Austin, Minnesota document just two of many instances of union-busting that has brought the percent of unionized workers in the private sector down to its current 8 percent."
• "Hopefully, the voters in his district will send the Cao off to the meatpackers."