#PackersSanitationServices — operating in 8 mostly midwestern & southern states — “allegedly employed minors as young as 13 to use caustic chemicals” & “dangerous equipment at meatpacking facilities,” which are “operated by…powerful meat & poultry producers, incl #JBS Foods, #Tyson & #Cargill.” However, these companies weren’t “charged or fined.”
#childlabor #childlabour
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/02/17/child-labor-meatpacking-department-of-labor/

NBC: The Labor Department said Friday it found 102 children as young as 13 working hazardous overnight jobs cleaning slaughterhouses in eight states in what it called a “corporate-wide failure” by one of the largest food sanitation companies in the country, Packers Sanitation Services Inc.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/feds-find-100-children-cleaning-slaughterhouses-pssi-rcna71171

#News #USNews #LaborDept #PackersSanitationServices

BOYCOTT #PACKERSSANITATIONSERVICES

https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/17/business/packers-sanitation-child-labor/index.html

They employed children to clean butchering saws!!!!!!

#ChildLabor

Lauren Kaori Gurley: U.S. fines firm $1.5 million for hiring kids to clean #meatpacking 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 #libertarian #hellscape of child labor in dangerous occupations.

#childlabor #packerssanitationservices
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/02/17/child-labor-meatpacking-department-of-labor

Federal officials investing possible child trafficking in Midwest

https://youtu.be/vHl2zL_x-20

#news #Nebraska #humantrafficking #childlabor #packerssanitationservices #Minnesota