Exclusive-Hyundai subsidiary has used child labor at Alabama factory
Fri Jul 22, 2022, 10:06 AM
Exclusive: Hyundai subsidiary has used child labor at Alabama manufacturing plant
Source: Reuters
A subsidiary of Hyundai Motor Co has used child labor at a plant that supplies parts for the Korean carmaker's associates line in nearby Montgomery, Alabama, according to area law, the family of iii underage workers, and eight former and electric current employees of the mill.
Underage workers, in some cases every bit young as 12, have recently worked at a metal stamping plant operated by SMART Alabama LLC, these people said. SMART, listed by Hyundai in corporate filings as a majority-owned unit, supplies parts for some of the most popular cars and SUVs built by the automaker in Montgomery, its flagship U.S. assembly plant.
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Reuters learned of underage workers at the Hyundai-endemic supplier following the brief disappearance in Feb of a Guatemalan migrant child from her family'due south home in Alabama.
The girl, who turns fourteen this month, and her two brothers, aged 12 and 15, all worked at the plant earlier this year and weren't going to school, according to people familiar with their employment. Their father, Pedro Tzi, confirmed these people's account in an interview with Reuters.
Read more: https://www.reuters.com/globe/us/exclusive-hyundai-subsidiary-has-used-kid-labor-alabama-factory-2022-07-22/
These accusations have been confirmed by erstwhile employees at the constitute.
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Response to groundloop (Original mail service)
Friday Jul 22, 2022, ten:17 AM
EYESORE 9001 (20,936 posts)
ane. From the article:
SMART, in a statement, said it follows federal, state and local laws and "denies any allegation that it knowingly employed anyone who is ineligible for employment." The company said it relies on temporary work agencies to fill up jobs and expects "these agencies to follow the constabulary in recruiting, hiring, and placing workers on its premises."
I don�t believe this lying sack of shit. Fifty-fifty the well-nigh casual of observers can identify 12-, 14-, and 15-year-onetime children, no thing how �mature� they may appear at commencement glance.
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Response to EYESORE 9001 (Reply #1)
Friday Jul 22, 2022, 12:46 PM
26. Maybe check all Corporations in the South ... immigrant & kid abuse
... looks like those good Republican christian states have establish a mode to solve the labor shortage, proceed pay downward, and abuse people and children at the aforementioned fourth dimension.
Clever buggers.
Let's ay we put some of those Corporate phuckers in jail instead of merely fining them chump alter (they call it the toll of doing business)... nosotros really demand to become a land of laws again instead of a land of "who'south on first".
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Response to IronLionZion (Reply #2)
Fri Jul 22, 2022, 11:xix AM
PatSeg (42,923 posts)
11. Information technology must be hard for them
juggling their anti-immigrant stance with their pro inexpensive labor solutions. Everything they practice is a contradiction of something else they abet. Meanwhile, their supporters withal haven't defenseless on. Too busy hating on the Libs I guess to run into what their own party is doing right in front of their eyes.
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Response to IronLionZion (Reply #17)
Friday Jul 22, 2022, 12:04 PM
PatSeg (42,923 posts)
20. Yes, sums it upwards perfectly
And they take been doing information technology for decades. An old tactic that merely keeps working, and then why change the playbook.
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Response to PatSeg (Reply #xi)
Fri Jul 22, 2022, 12:46 PM
BadgerMom (2,415 posts)
27. Will we wish
one day for the skillful ol� days when Republicans didn�t want any immigrants in the country because in the near dystopian future the corporatists change and welcome newcomers equally slaves, indentured servants and child laborers? Nosotros know there�s no bottom for Republicans-corporatists-christofascists. Is this the new depth?
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Response to BadgerMom (Respond #27)
Fri Jul 22, 2022, 04:34 PM
PatSeg (42,923 posts)
34. Absolutely no bottom whatsoever
They will do or say anything to hold on to power. They care about winning more than they exercise governing.
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Response to groundloop (Original post)
Fri Jul 22, 2022, 10:21 AM
yankee87 (184 posts)
3. Labor Shortage
I accept no doubt in my mind that Qpublicans are all for children working in factories and the fields for money to, "help out the family finances", This SCOTUS will repeal whatever child labor laws.
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Response to Evolve Dammit (Respond #21)
Fri Jul 22, 2022, 01:08 PM
31. Many times, OSHA inspections are only periodically
At least when I worked at a warehouse in Delaware, if yous got uncommonly high marks during your previous inspections, you were placed into a special category with special perks - one of them being exemption from surprise inspections (pregnant you knew when your inspection was going to exist).
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Response to Ilsa (Reply #29)
Fri Jul 22, 2022, 09:14 PM
former9thward (26,746 posts)
38. OSHA only has 750 workplace inspectors.
I worked for OSHA for fourteen years in Chicago. There are millions of workplaces in the U.South. When I was with OSHA nosotros calculated information technology would take OSHA 140 years to inspect every workplace in the U.Southward.
Congress and ALL administrations since OSHA's founding in 1970 has refused to fund OSHA beyond starvation amounts.
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Response to Ilsa (Answer #29)
Sat Jul 23, 2022, 01:12 AM
TexasBushwhacker (18,134 posts)
41. No doubt they're understaffed like the IRS
Want to continue the corporations and wealthy individuals from getting audited? Just cut the budget to the IRS.
Want to proceed businesses from go inspections past OSHA and other regulatory agencies? Only cut their budgets.
Desire your poorly educated supporters to call up you lot're actually doing something nigh undocumented workers? Spend billions on a WALL and arrest every brown person y'all tin, but never do ANYTHING to the employers who rent them, considering that would exist "anti-business organisation".
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Response to groundloop (Original mail)
Fri Jul 22, 2022, 10:58 AM
10. "She worked alongside nearly a dozen minors on her shift"
In late 2020, SMART wrote a letter to U.S. consular officials in Mexico seeking a visa for a Mexican worker. The letter, written by SMART Full general Managing director Gary Sport and reviewed by Reuters, said the plant was "severely lacking in labor" and that Hyundai "will not tolerate such shortcomings."
Many of the minors at the found were hired through recruitment agencies, according to current and sometime SMART workers and local labor recruiters.
One former worker at SMART, an adult migrant who left for another auto industry job concluding year, said there were around 50 underage workers between the different plant shifts, calculation that he knew some of them personally. Another former adult worker at SMART, a U.Southward. denizen who also left the plant last year, said she worked alongside virtually a dozen minors on her shift.
Another former employee, Tabatha Moultry, 39, worked on SMART'south associates line for several years through 2019. Moultry said the plant had high turnover and increasingly relied on migrant workers to go on up with intense production demands. She said she remembered working with one migrant daughter who "looked 11 or 12 years old."
The girl would come to piece of work with her female parent, Moultry said. When Moultry asked her real historic period, the girl said she was 13. "She was style too young to be working in that institute, or any plant," Moultry said. Moultry didn't provide further details about the girl and Reuters couldn't independently confirm her account.
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Response to Sky Jewels (Reply #12)
Friday Jul 22, 2022, xi:49 AM
15. No, simply the 1800'southward. Child labor in the textile factories in New England.
Those footling easily can handle some of those small parts.
Big industry would beloved to go back to child labor. Don't have to pay them developed wages. (They're simply doing it for spending money, you know.) Gag.
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Response to groundloop (Original post)
Friday Jul 22, 2022, eleven:56 AM
wnylib (13,489 posts)
sixteen. Problems on and so many levels.
The father who allowed it. The adult co-workers who did not make an bearding report, the agencies that supply the children, and the plant supervisors who certainly knew that workers from agencies were children.
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Response to groundloop (Original postal service)
Fri Jul 22, 2022, 12:03 PM
19. I worked
throwing newspapers from 10 to 12. Then I worked in a movie theater from 12 to 15. Then I worked in a donut shop from 15 to 16. And then I worked in a dry cleaners from 16 to 18. The laws in Nebraska allowed information technology with rules for how many hours I could work. They were allowed to pay me less than minimum wage until I was 16.
The problem here is no school, possibly low/no pay, other abuse?
From the article: Alabama and federal laws limit minors under age 18 from working in metal stamping and pressing operations such as SMART, where proximity to unsafe mechanism can put them at take chances. Alabama law also requires children 17 and under to be enrolled in school.
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Response to groundloop (Original post)
Fri Jul 22, 2022, 12:26 PM
LisaM (26,551 posts)
23. Wait, what well-nigh the PARENTS?
I am not excusing the employer for non checking on the ages of the kid.workers, only the parents don't have to bank check. They know.
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Response to LisaM (Reply #23)
Fri Jul 22, 2022, 01:12 PM
ggma (125 posts)
32. Approximate yous've never been poor.
Sometimes the money earned past a child is the just money coming in to a domicile.
Speaking from experience. Age 14 to sixteen. Poor in Nebraska, no work for adults at the time, but the employers could and did hire two kids for the cost of 1 adult.
Two years working a full time task, i day off a week, nevertheless had to maintain an A average in school. Ran away at 16 to live with some other family unit member, to live a "normal" life, frying pan met fire, my life got worse.
Point being - practice you know more about this than what you just read? Exercise you know the people involved? Tin can you say for sure that family unit is calumniating? Or are they just trying to survive.
You lot cannot judge this. You take no thought of what those families are going through...
gg
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Response to ggma (Reply #32)
Fri Jul 22, 2022, 02:53 PM
LisaM (26,551 posts)
33. I have been poor and I worked as a teenager.
However, I did not go to work in a mill, and my parents didn't (apparently) lie about my age when I did work. But thanks for the unnecessary snark.
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Response to groundloop (Original post)
Fri Jul 22, 2022, 06:43 PM
Ziggysmom (two,034 posts)
36. Alabama law does not regulate the employment of minors in the agricultural
industries. NONE. NO REGULATION. Recollect nearly it. What a shithole country that allows children to perform unsafe labor. But hey, it's non worse than forcing the girls to behave rapist and incest babies to term, huh?
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