At Least 50 Children Found Working Graveyard Shifts Cleaning Midwest Slaughterhouses

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- NBC News, Jan.19, 2023. A recent Department of Labor investigation found at least 50 children working overnight shifts cleaning slaughterhouses across the Midwest. NBC's Julia Ainsley has more on how the federal government is now looking into whether any of the children were victims of human trafficking.

[appalachiablue]

2. Sickening, tragic exploitation for greed. Slam the companies & traffickers

[Lunabell]

3. They said they didn't know they were underage. Wink. Wink.

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I call bullshit on that. Those asswipes knew damn good and well those were children. Corporations always exploit people for profit.

[appalachiablue]

18. +1

[keithbvadu2]

4. Newt wanted schoolchildren to work as janitors in their schools.

[appalachiablue]

5. Newt, I well remember him bringing that up on CNN or MSNBC, 'it's a good way for

a school kid to make a few extra dollars a week, cleaning up the school'... nothing wrong with that.

[appalachiablue]

7. I don't recall the food bill part, but he could have added it..Dunno.

[appalachiablue]

9. Always malevolent.. As I recall he married one of his teachers to get

out of Vietnam. Wonder if he's still shopping at Tiffany's for the current wife, Calista. Best to forget him, yep.

[keithbvadu2]

12. Calista must not let him out of her sight. She herself is proof positive that he cannot be trusted

Calista must not let him out of her sight.

She herself is proof positive that he cannot be trusted to not cheat.

[appalachiablue]

15. Exactly, I forgot how quickly he 'changes models' - gag..

[Faux pas]

10. Kickin' with DISGUST

[central scrutinizer]

11. My home town!

In the news again for reprehensible reasons. A high school newspaper there was recently shut down for publishing an LGBTQ issue.

https://www.npr.org/2022/10/28/1132163812/a-high-school-newspaper-in-nebraska-was-shut-down-after-it-published-lgbtq-stories

[ancianita]

13. It's what happens in a corporate run red state. The statehouse, Ricketts & Pillen knew.

5 Packer Sanitation Services plants.
No state law enforcement stops these corporations.
It takes the Dept of Labor from evil "big guv" to catch corporations in the act.

The statehouse, Ricketts & Pillen knew.
Now Ricketts is in the Senate.
They're all accessories after the fact.

There's probably no legal recourse or compensation for the trafficked juveniles themselves.
This has likely gone on for years; the AG's website even admits it; he hasn't even made a CYA move to protect exploited, trafficked youth.

Children would be put to work wherever corporations run a country like a business and a small town like a company store.
No wonder youth today don't trust anyone over 30.

[appalachiablue]

16. THIS ++ Chldren put to work wherever corps run a country like a business & a small town Co. store..

Great post, all well said. We're in dangerous times, again.

[moniss]

19. Plus the

corporations use outside "contractors" so they can try to deny having knowledge/responsibility. So when the authorities go looking for XYZ Cleaning the company has magically disappeared and maybe never had more than a P.O. Box. The same thing happens with growers. There was a big bust of this sort of thing in the last few years in the upper Midwest. The "contractors" were basically holding adults and children as slave labor by use of force and intimidation. They controlled all movement and contact. The minders were armed. The growers claimed no knowledge of anything. Apparently having your managers or you yourself go out to the fields and see for yourself what is going on is something they feel would be unnecessary. Slave labor and child abuse on their own property and they felt no need to step in.

[moniss]

14. Remember that

it was the Midwestern GQP members of Congress who kept introducing bills to do away with child labor laws.

[appalachiablue]

17. Righto!!