Posted on 12/17/2022 5:33:44 AM PST by lowbridge
A 14-year-old girl from Guatemala assembled auto body components, a 12-year-old child worked in a dangerous metal stamping shop, and dozens of other underage workers were found in at least four Hyundai and Kia supplier plants, according to a Reuters report published Friday.
The report details allegations at two supplier plants—Hwashin America Corp’s facility in Greenville, Alabama and Ajin Industrial Co in Cusseta, Alabama—where employees reported working alongside at least 10 children. Through spokespeople, the plants said they hadn’t, “to the best of our knowledge,” hired children to work in their facilities.
This summer, Reuters and the U.S. Department of Labor detailed allegations that children as young as 12 were working in other Hyundai/Kia supplier plants in Alabama. Since then, up to 10 other supplier plants have been investigated for child labor violations.
In the Reuters report, state and federal inspectors arrived unannounced at a supplier plant owned by Ajin in late August for a site inspection. As investigators arrived, workers fled out of the back of the plant before they could be questioned.
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Investigators fail to station men at the back door for only one reason: they do NOT want to question the people inside. They want them to get away.
You have to know this isn’t an isolated story, this is the new America, when you allow unlimited immigration and Employers suffer no consequences for hiring these people.
You pay these people less money, you don’t pay worker’s compensation insurance, you don’t pay social security or FICA taxes, etc...
Leni
That’s a bingo! The government and big buisness are in it together.
We had to send a couple people from corporate HR to help the plant HR with the hiring of replacements.....
We actually provide good meals around the clock as an additional incentive for workers in Mexico.
Given this, you know damn well that the Central Americans don't WANT to work in Mexico because they can keep going north where labor laws are even more laxly enforced and free stuff paid by American taxpayers is abundant.
And, yes, we are forced to compete against even more shady operators who pull stunts like this because we actually follow the laws of the countries where we operate.
You’re right - these people know about back doors.
Also it’s time for the U.S. Department of Labor to tell us where the 5 million illegals Biden’s brought into the country are working.
One thing that would help curb illegal immigration is cracking down hard on companies that are exploiting these people.
Make the penalties hard enough that companies think twice about exploiting these people.
I don’t buy the argument that Americans won’t do certain jobs, I grew up in a farming community, I picked watermelons, tobacco, and bailed hay as a kid, all the kids I went to school with did the same thing, even the women and girls worked on the farms. There was virtually no such thing as illegal immigration.
“Back around 2006, we had a satellite plant in I think Missouri. On a Friday morning, ICE raided the plant but somehow word had gotten out about the pending raid and about 100 employees never showed up for work and never returned....LOL!”
The Bush Administration (As well as Clinton, Obama, or today Biden) was notorious for not enforcing laws against companies hiring illegal aliens. I’m sure some big-wig at ICE dropped a dime to the plant saying “Make your workers scarce. There’s a raid coming.”. Even if ICE happened to catch a bunch of illegals the companies usually suffered little to no punishment.
” allow unlimited immigration and Employers suffer no consequences”
It’s worse than that.
Big Landscape companies import ‘Seasonal’ workers for summer help. Tax breaks. Low wages.
Cut them all loose at the end of the seummer. Then bring in a whole NEW group the next year.
Many filter out to the booming recently documented running their own landscape business hiring illegals, as they learned from their former employers.
The real cringe? The Karens and AWFLs that hire them for property maintenance.
Ask those folks about hiring illegals and you get that typical smug face when caught being Karens, that makes them so very popular.
Go to any construction site and look at who is working there.
Here in NE Florida, houses and apartments can’t be built fast enough, we are literally in a building boom.
I’m not a construction expert, but I can tell when people are working in unsafe conditions, if some illegal alien gets hurt or worse dies, there is no cost to the employer, they dump them at a hospital and the rest of us pick them up the tab thru higher insurance rates, etc.
Why am I not shocked?
“I don’t buy the argument that Americans won’t do certain jobs”
I know Americans who work in some of the Hyundai/Kia plants in Alabama and West Point, GA.
So Americans do those jobs.
packagingguy:I know Americans who work in some of the Hyundai/Kia plants in Alabama and West Point, GA. So Americans do those jobs.
The Hyuandai and Kia plant jobs are A list high paying jobs. The little kids are working at the supplier jobs usually under brutal conditions because the suppliers cut their prices to win the bid.
A town I lived in for a few years had a plant that powdercoated parts for the big three. The conditions were beyond brutal. People would work their 2 or 3 weeks and then quit. No person could keep up with the insanely fast assembly line production schedule and not get worn out. Now it is all hispanic workers from what I have heard.
What a shame. The Investigators were there to sign them up for Welfare.
IF we had a truly CLOSED BORDER-—they would NOT be here in the first place.
And the immigrants pay no taxes and all the free government perks for life so much for Biden’s build back better plan.
What’s the problem. These children are learning a valuable trade. /s
When the USA offers a large benefits for poverty without regard to the partaker's eligibility to be in the country, it is only natural that we will continue to import an endless supply of poverty and pseudo-poverty.
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