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It's probably pretty common in American-owned industries known to use human trafficking, but trafficking exploits populations our society isn't concerned enough
by DrewADesign 4y ago
It's probably pretty common in American-owned industries known to use human trafficking, but trafficking exploits populations our society isn't concerned enough about to proactively monitor. The agency Hyundai used for workers is not Korean– it's Guatemalan– and it likely supplies farms, food processing plants, and other businesses that need lots of low end labor. Check out the Frontline documentary on human trafficking in food processing plants. The worst offender was an egg processor based in Maine.
A friend who worked for a union that organized poultry plant workers said some of these plants– all large, American companies with names you see in every grocery store— essentially ignored labor laws entirely. One actually had a jail cell in the factory used as a disciplinary measure for misbehaving employees.
- ghufran_syed 4y ago"One actually had a jail cell in the factory used as a disciplinary measure for misbehaving employees." This seems like a fairly easy thing for the media (or the union) to expose - so is there any evidence this is true? Seems more likely to be union FUD if the union doesn't expose the evidence
- DrewADesign 4y agoPublic evidence? No. Do you have public evidence of everything your proven trustworthy friends tell you? Luckily, my anecdote isn't supporting a legal action or news story. He said the union absolutely used it to pressure management into a more favorable stance towards Unionization, and the plant is now unionized.
- lupire 4y agoYour anecdote is supporting a forum post that you expect readers to believe is true. It's a news story.
- DrewADesign 4y agoGood lord. Get a hobby.
- ghufran_syed 4y agoI have a hobby, thanks. It involves trying to learn more about the world, making reasonable judgements about authenticity of what I hear, and asking in good faith for more evidence when what is provided is insufficient - "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence"
- trynewideas 4y agoWas curious and didn't find reporting on that, just stories that were somehow worse: https://revealnews.org/article/they-thought-they-were-going-to-rehab-they-ended-up-in-chicken-plants/ https://revealnews.org/article/they-thought-they-were-going-... https://revealnews.org/blog/response-to-labor-camp-investigation-i-cant-imagine-how-this-is-legal/ https://revealnews.org/blog/response-to-labor-camp-investiga... https://theappeal.org/louisiana-poultry-plant-prison-labor/ https://theappeal.org/louisiana-poultry-plant-prison-labor/