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Merry Christmas! to all the Good Little Girls and Boys working in Alabama Car Plant
At least four major suppliers of Hyundai Motor Co and sister Kia Corp have employed child labor at Alabama factories in recent years, a Reuters investigation found, and state and federal agencies are probing whether kids have worked at as many as a half dozen additional manufacturers throughout the automakers’ supply chain in the southern U.S. state. {..snip..}
On Aug. 22 a team of Labor Department and Alabama state inspectors arrived unannounced at one of Ajin’s plants, according to people familiar with the operation. As the team arrived, workers rushed out the back and left the premises before they could be questioned, one of the inspectors told a meeting of Alabama’s anti-human trafficking task force last month, according to two people who attended. The inspection hasn’t previously been reported. {..snip..}
Among the issues state and federal investigators are now probing is whether children who worked among Hyundai suppliers may have gotten there through human trafficking networks, three people familiar with the investigations said. “Minor is part of a child labor trafficking case,” read notes reviewed by Reuters from one of the brothers’ ORR case files.
In the notes, authorities wrote the children described “exploitation from debt bondage (repaying smuggling debts).” They added that an unnamed “third party labor service company” made the youths believe it could have them removed from the United States.
“Some children expressed fear of deportation based on comments made by company officials to them,” the notes said.
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-immigration-hyundai/
On Aug. 22 a team of Labor Department and Alabama state inspectors arrived unannounced at one of Ajin’s plants, according to people familiar with the operation. As the team arrived, workers rushed out the back and left the premises before they could be questioned, one of the inspectors told a meeting of Alabama’s anti-human trafficking task force last month, according to two people who attended. The inspection hasn’t previously been reported. {..snip..}
Among the issues state and federal investigators are now probing is whether children who worked among Hyundai suppliers may have gotten there through human trafficking networks, three people familiar with the investigations said. “Minor is part of a child labor trafficking case,” read notes reviewed by Reuters from one of the brothers’ ORR case files.
In the notes, authorities wrote the children described “exploitation from debt bondage (repaying smuggling debts).” They added that an unnamed “third party labor service company” made the youths believe it could have them removed from the United States.
“Some children expressed fear of deportation based on comments made by company officials to them,” the notes said.
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-immigration-hyundai/
This is a very important (and LONG) article discussing not just Hyundai and Kia, but also the apparent extensive use of child labor in chicken processing plants.
Making America Great Again: One shattered dream at a time.
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Noam Chomsky's "Manufacturing Consent" explains what this role is. How far that role is from what we have been taught for so long.
YouTube has the videos:
5 min Cartoon version:
10 min by Chomsky hisself:
There was a ~3 hour expostulation, now made private { www youtube com /watch ?v=EuwmWnphqII } which perhaps can be found somewhere.
Or, just read
the book
YouTube has the videos:
5 min Cartoon version:
10 min by Chomsky hisself:
There was a ~3 hour expostulation, now made private { www youtube com /watch ?v=EuwmWnphqII } which perhaps can be found somewhere.
Or, just read
the book
