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This is a big deal to me as an occasional professional metal worker. They wouldn't have to resort to exploiting children if adult wages were being offered for these jobs. Instead, staffing agencies seek illegals, and now even child labor, to keep wages down for some manufacturers in the USA. The firms that supply these workers to businesses are often overlooked in the equation, but this stuff needs to be cleaned up pronto. This was allowed to happen because some greedy staffing agencies have for years gotten away with and gotten rich off supplying illegals to businesses that wanted them.
One thing you do not do and get away with it in America is go after the children. The people who were responsible for putting 12 year olds to work in a stamping plant need to be dealt with harshly and without mercy. Shame on all those responsible. Thankfully, this business won't be thriving any longer since Hyundai, likely their biggest customer, has severed ties permanently.
This is a big deal to me as an occasional professional metal worker. They wouldn't have to resort to exploiting children if adult wages were being offered for these jobs. Instead, staffing agencies seek illegals, and now even child labor, to keep wages down for some manufacturers in the USA. The firms that supply these workers to businesses are often overlooked in the equation, but this stuff needs to be cleaned up pronto. This was allowed to happen because some greedy staffing agencies have for years gotten away with and gotten rich off supplying illegals to businesses that wanted them.
One thing you do not do and get away with it in America is go after the children. The people who were responsible for putting 12 year olds to work in a stamping plant need to be dealt with harshly and without mercy. Shame on all those responsible. Thankfully, this business won't be thriving any longer since Hyundai, likely their biggest customer, has severed ties permanently.
So a company with little oversight exploits the cheapest labor possible. This should not be a surprise.
This is history repeating itself. If anything I would expect it more in the future as all that matters is the bottom line, stock prices etc.
This is a big deal to me as an occasional professional metal worker. They wouldn't have to resort to exploiting children if adult wages were being offered for these jobs. Instead, staffing agencies seek illegals, and now even child labor, to keep wages down for some manufacturers in the USA. The firms that supply these workers to businesses are often overlooked in the equation, but this stuff needs to be cleaned up pronto. This was allowed to happen because some greedy staffing agencies have for years gotten away with and gotten rich off supplying illegals to businesses that wanted them.
One thing you do not do and get away with it in America is go after the children. The people who were responsible for putting 12 year olds to work in a stamping plant need to be dealt with harshly and without mercy. Shame on all those responsible. Thankfully, this business won't be thriving any longer since Hyundai, likely their biggest customer, has severed ties permanently.
The "Company" is Hyundai itself,
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A subsidiary of Hyundai Motor Co has used child labor at a plant that supplies parts for the Korean carmaker's assembly line in nearby Montgomery, Alabama, according to area police, the family of three underage workers, and eight former and current employees of the factory.
Underage workers, in some cases as young as 12, have recently worked at a metal stamping plant operated by SMART Alabama LLC, these people said. SMART, listed by Hyundai in corporate filings as a majority-owned unit, supplies parts for some of the most popular cars and SUVs built by the automaker in Montgomery, its flagship U.S. assembly plant.
they knew what was going on. Its a subsidiary owned through 4 different shell companies.
Munoz's comments represent the Korean automotive giant's most substantive public acknowledgment to date that child labor violations may have occurred in its U.S. supply chain, a network of dozens of mostly Korean-owned auto-parts plants that supply Hyundai's massive vehicle assembly plant in Montgomery, Alabama.
Perhaps we should be more careful about foreign companies opening plants in the US?
I agree 100% that this is wrong. But just realize that this is common in other countries. Would it bother you (us) to buy products from other countries that employed children?
We need laws that prevent imports that are not made in accordance with OUR labor and environmental laws.
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3 million more laborers became available in the country in the last year, is anyone really surprised that people are taking advantage of this situation.
I guess SMART Alabama isn't so smart after all. Why wouldn't the shop reject the underage kids sent by the third-party hiring firm? There's a whole lot wrong here.
They should be doing kid things, like attending drag shows, deciding their gender pronouns, laying down in front of traffic on busy streets to protest climate change…
Why don't we ask those kids if they are happy working there?
Yes, and if they like smoking cigarettes and drinking beer, why not let them do that too
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