Alabama - More than 50 young kids found working at Hyundai plant

[AntivaxHunters]

Are you ready for this?
Just when you thought you'd seen it all in 2022, this happens.

Story here https://www.insider.com/minors-reported-working-at-a-hyundai-supplier-factory-in-alabama-2022-7

Snips -- story is long.

Underage workers have been reportedly working at a Hyundai-owned supply factory in Alabama, according to a report published Friday by Reuters.

Children as young as 12 worked at the SMART metal stamping plant in Luverne, Alabama, which supplies parts for the Hyundai assembly line in nearby Montgomery, according to Reuters.

The news outlet said it learned of child labor following the brief disappearance of a Guatemalan migrant from her family's home in Alabama in February.

Pedro Tzi, the father of the soon-to-be 14-year-old girl, confirmed with Reuters that she and her two brothers, aged 12 and 15, were not attending school and working at the plant.

[spanone]

1. WTF?

[halobeam]

2. really... WTdoubleF!

[Baked Potato]

3. Oh JHC say this isn't true. Nt

[RANDYWILDMAN]

4. Audit the hell out of this company and this STATE

How did you know a state as smug as bama could do something like this.

[SergeStorms]

5. Hyundai denies knowing anything about it....

because they subcontract the work to SMART metal stamping, but they don't know anything about it because they use subcontractors to supply them with employees.....I think you get the picture here. No one is responsible, but you'd think someone would recognize a 13 year old in their work force, but apparently no one has, until one came up missing.

Republicans love undocumented foreign workers. They can get around every law on the books by using them. Of course on Fox Noise they'll scream about how it's the number one problem in the country today, just before they run out and hire 100 more.

And expect another HUGE CARAVAN OF "ILLEGAL ALIENS" (their words) to be closing in on our southern border just before the mid-terms.

They're sooooooo predictable.

[DBoon]

20. the point of subcontractoing is to avoid responsibility ...

... in all too many cases.

If this is ever seriously investigated, I bet the subcontractor just vanishes into thin air.

[progressoid]

6. The company gets a slap on the wrist.

A Reuters review of the records shows SMART has been assessed with at least $48,515 in OSHA penalties since 2013, and was most recently fined this year. OSHA inspections at SMART have documented violations including crush and amputation hazards at the factory.

[Whiskeytide]

15. So OSHA inspectors walked around the plant and ...

… found numerous safety violations, but didn’t notice the 50 Elmo lunch boxes in the break room?

[DFW]

7. If it's SMART, it'll be a slap on the wrist

If it‘s Hyundae, Alabama just balanced its budget.

[KPN]

9. Bingo! Concise and correct.

[BamaRefugee]

8. Now we're beginning to understand why SCOTUS wants LOTS of babies born and sent directly into

“The System” where their records can be lost, and they can be farmed out to American industry.
I always felt this was the actual reason for separating kids from families and putting them in cages, the perfect way to create a vast class of indentured servants/slaves in rich Republican households.

[BamaRefugee]

10. Black folks were in slavery in Alabama up until 1963. I was born in Birmingham in 1951!

Grew up watching all the turmoil of the civil rights struggle, went to college in Alabama, I know it like the back of my hand.
The whole place is set up as a paradise for middle class and upwards white folks.
Notice my screen name, I saved up all my money and fled to NYC in 1973 and never looked back.

[live love laugh]

16. ✔️+

[C Moon]

11. I've always believed the GOP wants to go backwards to a time when there were no child labor laws.

And so it is.

[BamaRefugee]

12. Why stop there? They want "long established customs" brought back and slavery was around even before

The US was founded, can’t get more established and traditional than that.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

13. GOP wants no regulation on industry and total control of you.

[uponit7771]

14. +1,

[Johnny2X2X]

17. Yup

Just go around to grocery stores and fast food places across the country to see their plans for seniors realized. GOP policies have led to a large number of seniors having to work to make ends meet, that's why you see people in their 70s stocking shelves at grocery stores, and people in their 80s acting as greeters. Not all of them, but most of them are doing it to help pay for medicine and basic living needs which has been ripped from them by Republican policies.

When the GOP whines about the LPR (Labor Participation Rate), what they're complaining about is that the young, the old, and the disabled aren't working enough. They want you to work from the time you can walk until you drop dead, so their masters can get rich and live the good life off your labor.

[Emile]

18. Some would say nothing for fear they will close

down the plant and move jobs overseas.

Sarcasm

[lpbk2713]

19. The link says a migrant girl is missing.

How soon before the police forget about that case?

If they haven't already.