Posted on 12/30/2024 10:05:55 PM PST by Olog-hai
The government of Brazil stopped issuing work visas for Chinese electric carmaker BYD after local authorities rescued 163 Chinese nationals working in conditions “analogous to slavery” at a BYD factory under construction in the city of Camaçari, Bahia, Reuters reported Friday.
BYD, a company with deep ties to the Chinese Communist Party, is building the plant at a location once occupied by American carmaker Ford, which sold the location to the local Bahia government in 2023 after Ford ceased all operations in Brazil in 2021.
Brazil’s Public Prosecutor’s Office announced on December 23 that construction work on BYD’s factory in Bahia had been halted after an ongoing investigation found that BYD, through a contractor identified as Jinjiang Group, employed dozens of Chinese nationals to build the factory.
Local inspectors found evidence that the Chinese workers, who were issued Brazilian temporary work visas, were subjected to work in “precarious” and “degrading” conditions and forced to live in lodgings with highly unsanitary conditions lacking basic hygiene measures. Brazilian officials rescued the workers and temporarily placed them in hotels as the ongoing investigation continues.
The investigation, which began in mid-November as a result of several complaints, also found that the rescued workers were subjected to conditions of “forced labor” such as having to relinquish their passports to the contractor and allow for 60 percent of their wage to be withheld under threat of severe punishment should they decide to quit. “Forced labor” is widely recognized as a form of modern slavery. …
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Jinjiang Group, employed dozens of Chinese nationals to build the factory.
It wasn’t BYD,but JinJang. BYD had asked them to correct the deficiencies multiple times, and IIRÇ warned JinJang about consequences if the deficiencies weren’t corrected.
It’s all owned and run by the Red Chinese government.
Comin 2 america soon
Soon? Under Trump?
Let them hire our H1-Bs.
Already here! H1B
We need to stop imports from China! We must wean ourselves off of these evil bastards. They are building their economy and military on the backs of the American people. Then when we are at our weakest they will ponce. We better wake the HELL up!
People should not play with their JinJang.
Tsk. Those Chinese white supremacists are the worst.
That means Wal-Mart’s business model must drastically change.
So Must Elon Musk’s and Apple’s.
Don’t expect Musk to comment on this. Tesla’s largest factory is in Shanghai and his mother Maye visits China at least once per month. She is a huge celebrity there.
The unionized BYD manufacturing plant in Lancaster, CA supplies EV buses, large trucks and sanitation vehicles to the US market.
Its the H 1 2 3 Prototype our Two Foreign Billionaires masters plan to implement here under the so called Trump ‘ Cut Waste’ programs in which the white middle class is the waste to remove .
I hope more and more of these stories keep coming out.
Julius Nyere ran the Chicoms out of Tanzania after they built him a railroad. 2 socialist/communists. Made me laugh. The 3rd world hates the colonists but the communist kind have gotta be the worst.
Well there it is, BYD uses slavery....shout it loud.
Looks more & more like ever doing business with the Chinese was a bad mistake going back many years. When this practice started, my first thought was that it was a bad mistake. It’s not that some of their products are all that bad, but some of them are pretty suspect & their labor practices are apparently really bad. Ending all trade with them might be a good idea for several reasons.
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