Nearly a dozen children worked under strenuous and hazardous conditions at a pork processing plant in Iowa, the US Department of Labor announced following an investigation.
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You’re hearing about it because a democratic president put into place regulations and oversight that makes these kinds of labor practices illegal. What is the incoming republican president promising to do??
Comments are concerning, it’s not about party politics. This stuff is under the radar, that’s why need journalists to expose. Why not out the products produced and actively boycott.
This is whats going to surface amidst mass deportations. A significant pct. of Republican owned businesses have been amongst the most exploitive of undocumented and underage workers.
And we can trust the new order in Washington to protect poor defenseless children against Corporate greed? Oh wait, that's them!
Let me know when those profits start to trickle down... I've been waiting a while.
Republicans will do anything for cheap labor. We need amnesty so these poor children won’t be forced into these types of conditions. @kamalaharrisfans.bsky.social tried to secure our border, but Maga Republicans voted against the bill in Congress. #loveislove
Omg!!!! This really bothers me! I really hate loving pork ribeyes and ham…. Why doesn’t a company develop a non meat product that tastes and has the texture of those products???
Exactly ZERO surprise. Now, the irony will be that companies that hire illegal workers might be fined. Not this to. Children are irrelevant. Only fetuses have rights.
I am a registered Democrat from NY. Just a heads up, this has nothing to do with Maga bro! 🤦🏻♀️ it’s got everything to do with the millions of migrants who were let into our country
lol! Yup I hear you but you think inflation was bad before you just wait! Labor shortages going to drive up food, construction prices going to go up! I’m all for legal immigrant ion also. But you can’t go
Back without destroying us. I would give them a path to citizenship. Give a cut off date.
Read the story. They’re not gonna give detailed profiles of minor victims, but the kids were 13-17 years old, employed in cleaning roles, which would likely mean evening hours. The parents were likely at work themselves, and not aware of the full details of their kids’ after school jobs.
"were allegedly employed to use corrosive products to “clean head splitters, jaw pullers, bandsaws and neck clippers” at the Seaboard Triumph Foods facility in Sioux City from at least 2019 to 2023"
But you can't use adult hands to clean a jaw puller. CNN you're crazy.
This isn’t uncommon. When I was in middle school and high school I did it. After the processing shutdown, me and 4 or 5 kids would do the cleanup. Not of the cutting equipment though. Floors, tables and the holding area.
Nothing surprises me about the US!! US has the nerve to criticise other countries, they should look at themselves and sort out their own bloody place!!
So don't give the migrants status to work jobs they're qualified for and...ahem, out your kids in there?!
You wanna tag their ears too? Sick freaking people.
Unfortunately under Trump this will be a norm. He will force women to be in their own homes, to make babies, and then make the children work for these jobs instead of educating them
And orange puke will get rid of all of those protections? You know child labor is cheep, and they will capitalize! I don’t think I’ve ever hated anyone. But I’m hating anyone who risks kids lives I the workplace?
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Then you buried the fact that some of the teens used false ID to say they were old enough for the job
This is still a disturbing story b/c teens are put into dangerous conditions.
At any moment, Georgia is gonna shout, "Hold mah beer!"
The incoming republican president is promising to continue what the democratic president is doing
2. Demand immigrants be deported.
3. Repeal child labor laws.
4. Express shock that leopards ate YOUR face.
Let me know when those profits start to trickle down... I've been waiting a while.
"White collar" crime will continue until Board Member face Jail time and Bankruptcy.
Back without destroying us. I would give them a path to citizenship. Give a cut off date.
Hope it was worth losing your ratings, since it backfired on you this time unlike 2016, and your freedoms.
But you can't use adult hands to clean a jaw puller. CNN you're crazy.
Not to worry, it'll only get worse!
You wanna tag their ears too? Sick freaking people.