graverubber · @graverubber
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epi.org/blog/an-average-of-27-
Here’s something I learned today. We are sending children to do these jobs again. I really had hoped that we as a society had moved beyond these kinds of horrors. These plants shouldn’t exist and we certainly shouldn’t be sending children into them.

#meatpacking #osha #childlabor

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steve dustcircle ⍻ · @dustcircle
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amie.rivers · @amierivers
237 followers · 263 posts · Server newsie.social

in southeast are now—officially—gearing up to organize into labor at their respective .

iowastartingline.com/2023/04/2

#meatpacking #workers #Iowa #unions #workplaces

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Definitely Dr Dieterlen · @docdieterlen
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Bunkunin · @Bunkunin
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'Egregious': DOL Finds US Meatpacking Plants Illegally Employed 100+ Children
commondreams.org/news/child-la

#childlabor #meatpacking #US

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Brian Harrod · @BrianHarrod
199 followers · 126 posts · Server masthead.social

EVIL CORPORATE IDIOTS: American food safety sanitation services provider... ...Employed over 100 children in hazardous occupations... ....And had them working overnight shifts at 13 meat processing facilities in eight states....

dol.gov/newsroom/releases/whd/

#childlabor #laborviolations #osha #meatpacking #usa #news #worldnews #smh #omg

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Arena Cops 🇺🇦✌ · @ArenaCops
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@GottaLaff Slave labor abusing underage kids in the country of Eleanor Roosevelt, the outspoken, brilliant proponent of the Declaration of Human Rights.
It's disgraceful - for the abusers of underage children!

#humanrights #humanity #humanitymatters #slavelabor #meatpacking

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Laffy · @GottaLaff
8494 followers · 14176 posts · Server mastodon.social

100+ —some as young as 13—were employed in hazardous jobs cleaning equipment like skull splitters, brisket saws, & bone cutters in plants in 8 states over 3 yrs

Children were employed by Packers Sanitation Services Inc., -based staffing agency that fills open jobs in food-services & agricultural industries on contract basis. PSSI is owned by Blackstone Group, and paid $1.5 million in penalties for the violations

time.com/6256728/meatpacking-c

#children #meatpacking #wisconsin

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Bongolian · @Bongolian
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Lauren Kaori Gurley: U.S. fines firm $1.5 million for hiring kids to clean plants: Packers Sanitation Services allegedly employed minors as young as 13 to use dangerous chemicals to clean razor-sharp saws and other equipment

"The company, Packers Sanitation Services, allegedly employed minors as young as 13 to use dangerous chemicals to clean 'razor-sharp saws,' head splitters and other high-risk equipment at 13 meatpacking facilities. The plants are operated by some of the country’s most powerful meat-processing companies, including JBS Foods, Tyson and Cargill. Those companies were not charged or fined."

Corporations want to return us to the of child labor in dangerous occupations.


washingtonpost.com/business/20

#meatpacking #libertarian #hellscape #childlabor #packerssanitationservices

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Benblades · @Benblades
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An Iowa state Senator Jason Schultz (R) wants to change child labor laws to allow 14 and 15 year olds to work in the meat packing industry. While I find it atrocious that a Family Values man would strip away the childhood of an Iowa teen, I find the line in the bill that creates a separate standard for child labor by shielding the business from civil liability if a youth worker becomes sick, injured or dies to be beyond words.

#iowa #childlabor #corporategreed #meatpacking

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Gladwyn d’Souza · @godsouza
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: have been exposed over the past year, including the use of child labor in Hyundai and Kia supply chains in , at JBS plants in and Minnesota, and at chains including McDonald’s, Dunkin Donuts and Chipotle.

Amid these violations, legislation have been introduced in several R states to roll back child labor protections. theguardian.com/us-news/2023/f

#republicansbacklosers #childlabor #alabama #meatpacking #nebraska #fastfood

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Philip Luke Johnson · @phillegitimate
316 followers · 18 posts · Server zirk.us

More brilliant reporting by Alice Driver about workers trying to organize and survive within the industry in "Working in Their Sleep" for nybooks.com/online/2022/12/23/

#migrant #meatpacking #arkansas #nyrb

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Sonya (she/her) · @sonyah
287 followers · 415 posts · Server mastodon.online

The has sued which cleans “kill floor” for because allegedly employed around 40 mostly-Spanish speaking children as young as 13 to perform hazardous work overnight in violation of laws in a Grand Island, NE meat packing plant. dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/OPA

#grandisland #ne #nebraska #lulac #childlabor #pssi #JBSFoods #meatpacking #packerssanitationservicesinc #departmentoflabor

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