Federal agents found more than two dozen minors illegally working inside a poultry plant in Kidron, Ohio, earlier this month, according to local immigration advocates who spoke to NBC News on the condition of anonymity.
The children, mainly from Guatemala, according to the advocates, were working in meat processing and sanitation in a plant run by Gerber’s Poultry, which produces Amish Farm Chicken, advertised with the slogan “Better feed, better taste.”
Child slave labor. Jesus. Prison time for the owners please.
No arrests were made at the time of the operation, according to multiple eyewitnesses.
Rob a 7-11 for a $200 - arrested immediately. Child labour for 25+ kids - requires more investigation.
They won’t even get fined more than they profited.
You misunderstand. Child labor is legal in agriculture in America. The only problem here was that the children were aliens.
We’ve had the same issue of modern slavery in Germany for over 10 years since Romania has become part of the EU. People working 12 hour shifts 6 days a week while barely earning 200€ and being forced to live with multiple people in one bed(!) or even sleeping in tents near the factories. Most of these people are young men brought to Germany under the impression that they will have a better life but ending up in a vicious cycle and are unable to escape because their managers will take away their passports upon arrival
Do you have to be 18 to work there?
In the article:
Under U.S. labor law, it is illegal for anyone under the age of 18 to work in meatpacking facilities because of the increased risk of injury from dangerous machines and chemicals. A 16-year-old Guatemalan boy was recently killed working in a poultry plant in Mississippi.
Yes from what I read federal law says all employees should be 18.
This is one of those things that makes me proud of the FBI.
I know that labor rights are hard slanted toward capital in the United States for things like the most common theft in the US: wage theft isn’t even a crime. It must be resolved in civil not criminal court.
So the fallout will be a good way to judge how effective the US and the FBI are at dismantling that oppressive plantation.
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