Excerpt: Echo Lake has a high percentage of Hispanic employees, and Warntjes estimated that 40% to 50% don't speak English well. Re-employing these workers poses special problems.
Nelida Barajas, 27, of Burlington came to the meetings with her family and said whole families now need new jobs. Her cousin, Omar Monroy, 23; his wife, Lizbet Cante, 30; and his mother, Juana Carbajal, 54, all of Burlington, worked at Echo Lake and are now unemployed.
"Husbands and wives were working there, even some had their kids working there," Barajas said. "So now, it's hard."
Barajas also said a lot of workers don't know how to drive or don't have a car, so finding new jobs in other cities means finding rides to work.
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