Workers Fled Out the Back When Labor Investigators Arrived at Hyundai Supplier: Report

msn.com ^ | December 16, 2022 | Aaron Cole

[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.

[38special]

By design.

[Gritty]

Well, all these illegal alien “unaccompanied minors” gotta make a living and feed themselves somehow and maybe don’t want to become sex slaves to do it.

[Organic Panic]

What do all the bleeding hearts think these millions of people, including the children, are going to do? There are only a few options. Crime, cheap labor, sexual exploitation.

[srmanuel]

That’s exactly right, in reality no political party cares about the average American Blue-Collar Worker, if they did, they would seal the border and crush companies that use illegal aliens for labor.

[Mr.Unique]

Why am I not shocked?

Because you know that a small number of isolated incidents could be blown out of proportion by Reuters?

[roadcat]

Alabama and the U.S. prohibit factory work for children 16 years old or younger and assembly jobs or dangerous manufacturing work for children 18 years old or younger.

I was 16 when I was hired to do manufacturing work in a company here in California. Some of it was dangerous, working with huge saw tables cutting and bending large metal sheets, operating bandsaws and drill presses, using torches and working with chemical solvents that dried out my skin. That work made me what I am, proficient with tools and a work ethic. Although I could have been injured. One time I was working at a drill press while a worker behind me brought a saw blade down hard into a thick metal sheet, and the saw teeth ripped off and embedded themselves into a wall a few inches from my head. Yikes, I almost fainted. Kids nowadays are coddled too much.