The Child Labor Thread

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LUVERNE, Alabama, July 22 (Reuters) - A subsidiary of Hyundai Motor Co has used child labor at a plant that supplies parts for the Korean carmaker's assembly line in nearby Montgomery, Alabama, according to area police, the family of three underage workers, and eight former and current employees of the factory. 

 

Underage workers, in some cases as young as 12, have recently worked at a metal stamping plant operated by SMART Alabama LLC, these people said. SMART, listed by Hyundai in corporate filings as a majority-owned unit, supplies parts for some of the most popular cars and SUVs built by the automaker in Montgomery, its flagship U.S. assembly plant. 

 

Hyundai (005380.KS) didn't respond to phone calls or emails from Reuters seeking comment.

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SMART, in a statement, said it follows federal, state and local laws and "denies any allegation that it knowingly employed anyone who is ineligible for employment." The company said it relies on temporary work agencies to fill jobs and expects "these agencies to follow the law in recruiting, hiring, and placing workers on its premises." 

 

SMART didn't answer specific questions about the workers cited in this story or on-the-job scenes they and other people familiar with the factory described. 

 

Reuters learned of underage workers at the Hyundai-owned supplier following the brief disappearance in February of a Guatemalan migrant child from her family's home in Alabama.

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After the disappearance generated local news coverage, SMART dismissed a number of underage workers, according to two former employees and other locals familiar with the plant. The sources said the police attention raised fears that authorities could soon crack down on other underage workers. 

 

Tzi, the father, also once worked at SMART and now does odd jobs in the construction and forestry industries. He told Reuters he regrets that his children had gone to work. The family needed any income it could get at the time, he added, but is now trying to move on. 

 

"All that is over now," he said. "The kids aren't working and in fall they will be in school."

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/exclusive-hyundai-subsidiary-has-used-child-labor-alabama-factory-2022-07-22/

 

 

 

Edited February 7, 2023 by Cooked Crack

[TradeTheBeal!]

Do y’all want these fancy new cars or not?

Edited July 22, 2022 by TradeTheBeal!

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2 minutes ago, TradeTheBeal! said:

Do y’all want new cars or not?

Nap time is over. Get back to work!

[CousinsCowgirl84]

Tesla doesn’t hire children 

[LadySkinsFan]

Head of plant needs to do some prison time as well as Hyundai needs a fine, a big one. 

[Ball Security]

Roy Moore be like, “how dey look?”

[GhostofSparta]

35 minutes ago, CousinsCowgirl84 said:

Tesla doesn’t hire children 

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Just now, GhostofSparta said:

The post I was looking for was “I’m pretty sure Tesla is ran by a child” but this works too I guess, in a depressing way.

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The company that hired the Mexican nationals and that supported their applications for TN visas is a Newnan staffing agency, GB2G, Inc. also known as Allswell. Workers say Allswell hired them to work for several different auto parts manufacturers in the West Point area that supply the Kia auto plant there.

Some real shady ass **** going on with the auto industry down south.

[LadySkinsFan]

Horrific! No labor union and importing educated workers for scam jobs. Senate and House needs to look into this practice and stop it.

[Fan since a Fetus]

I had to remind my mother this yesterday: Corporations are not your friends. They give zero craps about you. I don’t care if you worked their one year or 50. They don’t give a crap. It’s all about how much they can make and what they can get away with

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Edited August 24, 2022 by GoCommiesGo

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[Cooked Crack]

I guess this is now the child labor thread

 

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[TheDoyler23]

 

This sounds a lot like: "We want the working poor to be always working and always be poor" 

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[Califan007 The Constipated]

On 2/7/2023 at 8:45 AM, Cooked Crack said:

 

 

 

 

[Bang]

This is SO ****ING COOL!

This week has been like an internet museum showing us what it would be like if we had internet 300 years ago!
Child labor, loads of infant syphilis, child marriage.. 

 

 

WOO HOOO We is GREAT AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!


~!!!!! 

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[China]

Alone and Exploited, Migrant Children Work Brutal Jobs Across the U.S.

 

It was almost midnight in Grand Rapids, Mich., but inside the factory everything was bright. A conveyor belt carried bags of Cheerios past a cluster of young workers. One was 15-year-old Carolina Yoc, who came to the United States on her own last year to live with a relative she had never met.

 

About every 10 seconds, she stuffed a sealed plastic bag of cereal into a passing yellow carton. It could be dangerous work, with fast-moving pulleys and gears that had torn off fingers and ripped open a woman’s scalp.

 

The factory was full of underage workers like Carolina, who had crossed the Southern border by themselves and were now spending late hours bent over hazardous machinery, in violation of child labor laws. At nearby plants, other children were tending giant ovens to make Chewy and Nature Valley granola bars and packing bags of Lucky Charms and Cheetos — all of them working for the processing giant Hearthside Food Solutions, which would ship these products around the country.

 

“Sometimes I get tired and feel sick,” Carolina said after a shift in November. Her stomach often hurt, and she was unsure if that was because of the lack of sleep, the stress from the incessant roar of the machines, or the worries she had for herself and her family in Guatemala. “But I’m getting used to it.”

 

Click on the link for the full story

 

 

[China]

Biden Administration Plans Crackdown on Migrant Child Labor

 

The Biden administration on Monday announced a wide crackdown on the labor exploitation of migrant children around the United States, including more aggressive investigations of companies benefiting from their work.

 

The development came days after The New York Times published an investigation into the explosive growth of migrant child labor throughout the United States. Children, who have been crossing the southern border without their parents in record numbers, are ending up in punishing jobs that violate child labor laws, The Times found.

 

As part of the new effort, the Department of Labor, which enforces child labor laws, said it would target not just the factories and suppliers that use child labor, but the companies that rely on them to make their products or provide their workers. Migrant children often secure false identification, including Social Security numbers, and find jobs through staffing agencies or brokers.

 

Companies have escaped fines in the past by blaming those agencies or other subcontractors when violations are discovered.

 

“Too frequently, employers who contract for services are not vigilant about who is working in their facilities,” the Labor Department said in a statement.

 

Click on the link for the full article

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[Wildbunny]

As long as it's not their kids, they are fine with it...

 

Disgusting.