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> There are hundreds of foreign owned and operated factories in America that are run like independent kingdoms, staffed with people from other countries with th
by tcmb 4y ago
> There are hundreds of foreign owned and operated factories in America that are run like independent kingdoms, staffed with people from other countries with their own restaurants and dorms so the workers are never exposed to the outside world,
That doesn't make it ok, does it? What you're describing sounds a lot like the conditions that migrant workers in Qatar and Saudi Arabia are working in.
The US shouldn't tolerate such conditions for workers in factories on its soil, no matter who operates them and where the workers are from.
In fact, no country caring about human rights should. I'm from Germany and in the early Covid phase in 2020 it became clear that there are a lot of east European workers in our slaughterhouses, with them living in very tightly packed quarters (for which they had to pay exaggerated prices to their employers) leading to a massive spread of the disease. At the time, many politicians cried that something will have to change, but of course nothing happened and the whole thing was forgotten as quickly as it had come to light.
- reaperducer 4y agoThat doesn't make it ok, does it? At what point did I say it was OK? You're railing against a comment that agrees with your position.
- tcmb 4y agoI'm sorry if I misinterpreted the thrust of your argument. The way you pointed out this was a Korean-run factory and that it was 'extremely unusual' to be carried out by American companies sounded to me like relativizing what was (or is) going on here.
- cinntaile 4y agoWhat he's saying is that it's only a US company in the legal sense and that they're not necessarily operated with "American values".
- cinntaile 4y agoWhy the downvotes? I'm just paraphrasing what the GP said because the parent misunderstood.
- synu 4y agoI don’t think the person you are replying to was saying child slavery was ok, just adding more info on they sometimes get away with it.
- pbhjpbhj 4y ago>The US shouldn't tolerate such conditions for workers in factories on its soil // Nor for any company the USA law has reach over. Y'all stop copyright all around the World, but that protects executive wages so it's pretty clear where the morals lie here. If there's anyone involved in a company, and that person can reasonable be expected to know human trafficking, or forced child labour are happening under the auspices of that company, any where in the World, if those people are in reach of Western countries extradition agreements then they should be prosecuted. The companies should be fined a minimum of a years [recent average] profit, and all execs fined a minimum of a years wage.
- such12 4y ago