Federal officials discovered that more than 100 minors were found working in meat packing facilities across the Midwest, many of them cleaning slaughterhouses with dangerous chemicals. The company that employed those children has now been forced to pay more than a million dollars in fees. NBC’s Julia Ainsley reports.
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Rounding error money for that scale of business.
Looks like they are coming in from the border. Hoping on trains and heading directly to these jobs. There is one person thats responsible for this. He is knowing they are being funneled in. Find him and then go to work on who else in other companies are doing the same.
That would be US Corporate slave trafficking …..
Its OK the US will include it in International law to protect itself.
Just one of a million crimes
USA: “Stop Child Labor in China!!!”
Also USA:
Union Shops would never let this happen.
Man it’s like allowing a country that doesn’t have the same laws to spill into our country is a bad idea?
This is slavery for migrants children!!
If the minors are getting paid, I don’t see what the problem is. Sure, there’s a law where only a certain age up is allowed to be employed, but also. Its just a slaughter house. What’s wrong with kids cleaning as long as they’re doing it responsibly? How will those kids be able to help their families pay off their bills, now? We’re acting as if we didn’t have warriors fighting in battles not older than 17 in the old times. We’re taking kids for granted. If they want to work, let them work.
So… this is the system you Seppos want to spread around the World? Wow…
It’s almost like illegal immigration is creating another slave class to complete with the lower class insuring low labor costs for the multinational corporations…
I want to be sick!
Forgot to add illegal immigrants. Just get rid of them to stop the exploitation. But nope media will convince people they need to stay in america. Well enjoy the problem lol. It wont stop with stupid people on both sides. Theyre aloud to go to school here. Given money and shelter from our government. Aloud to vote. So much given to them why wont they come lol. Ya we lost our country. We just giving it away to other countries. Look at all the money sent to ukraine whos not our allie. nazis are a political party there. But hey we want to give them our tax dollars. Just heard biden gonna pay their government officials salaries now with our tax dollars. Good luck getting social security. Its already being given to Ukrainian refugees who havent contributed to it. Arent we happy our country is being stripped like car at a chop shop.
You don’t need to verify age when you don’t verify citizenship, and the plant supervisors aren’t stupid and follow the same practices. Tell us who the meat packaging plants are? That one in Grand Island has a long history of hiring illegals and not paying overtime or following safety standards.
This is happening in the Biden administration. Doesn’t that rings some bells.
One big reason among many, why I buy from local meat producers. Local chicken, and grass fed beef is great. Have to pay more of course but it’s worth it.
Good! These kids need to learn about real life. I bet most wont grow up to be ungrateful brats like most kids nowadays.
America once again demonstrating it has more in common with 2nd and 3rd world dictatorships than other 1st world democracies.
Finally, kids are cost effective!
“Forced to pay over one million dollars in fees”. Oh, that’ll teach them. NOT 🙄 if the penalty is a fine, it essentially means it’s legal for the rich. This is getting ridiculous.
*addendum- 2:45 exactly
Glad they bumped this up again,this has to stay at forefront of news. Children have right to be children
Republicans
Their family probably needs the money. Doubt the government will take care of them especially once they’re 18.
So where’s our own human rights group?? How can we in the US can get away with employing children? I am sure the whole industry employed more than 100 children. Like everything, it is ok for us to do it but not ok when others do it
Biden admin using its slaves to fight Russia
Stop supporting these disgusting industries! Eat whole food plant based.
The meat packing industry is FULL of migrants. These companies give incentive to come and work. I work in meat packing and have worked in manufacturing and it’s rife with migrants. The cleaners who come in after production are the same not one person speaks any English.
The fake outrage about this is laughable. Your phones were made by child slave labor. Your shoes were made by slaves. Everything you own was made by slaves. So unless you’re gonna throw all your stuff away you can just STFU.
Err….and yet US sanctions other countries for violating human rights?
And the only consequences towards PPSI are monetary penalties. $1.5 million IS just a drop in the bucket. Criminal charges need to happen with money going towards the victims!
Not a surprise with right wing states with poor labor laws. 😑
And people wonder why dems want the border open lolol 😂 It’s to help them! We swear!! 🤡 😂😅
Just another example of the hypocrisy of some ppl. The same ppl who then criticize China for doing exactly the same.
On the other hand, while some complain about illegal immigration (particularly mexicans), others, like some farmers for instance, pay to have undocumented workers sent to them as cheap labor to work in their farms, under slave conditions, with no benefits, doing the kind of work documented ppl do not want to do.
Slavery is alive and well
The Beef packing plants usually have to shut down when immigration shows up for inspections 80% call in sick Weird how they know the pic that day to call in sick
Greedy corporations!
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Children steal Americans job😅
Hey this is capitalism for you! A capitalist will employ children if they can get away with it. Marx wrote about this abuse in Kapital. You capitalists are evil.
We need to focus on balloons people 😐
Would Americans themselves want to do these dirty jobs? USA has already lost almost all of its manufacturing jobs to Cimmunist China since Democrat Clinton welcomed Communist China to WTO with open arms. USA has no young men desiring to or capable of doing the blue collar work. They only want to work in finance or IT industries
There are 15 and 16 year olds working at a McDonald’s near by. I’m glad it’s not dangerous. I’m so proud of them going to school and working to get a car and buy their own clothes and some even help their parents. My dad had to work on his parents farm and cattle ranch at 10 . Those kids in this video are being abused. And the owners need jail time for this to stop.
I started working at 14; saved for college, won scholarships to graduate school, and ultimately earned a PhD in mathematical physics.
I don’t know why everyone is so mad at least they had jobs right.
One thing, I can’t help to feel that despite all that’s wrong, how these children are so you yet have a working mentality. I’m not saying they should be this work, but just the idea that they’re doing something that even some adults don’t want to do.
Most “developed” society in the world.
This is what happens when you close epstiens island where else are they going to work.
Americants blabble on and on about freedom then let illegals in to do their hard jobs on purpose. They are treated like economic slaves. All of this can be easily stopped by charging the employers heavily they are easy to find. Instead they act like it’s impossible to stop the border problem lolz. It is very easy to put the factory owner in jail for 20 years for slavery and people will start looking a little closer for green cards
Us govt is failing to understand this failure…the middle layers aka consulting are a huge risk… companies use these as a shield to avoid litigations and they themselves eat into the workers hard earned money…these white people don’t care and talk big game…
that’s what happens when you don’t want to hire Americans but you want to hire illegals. They probably gave you false paperwork that made them adults so they could get the job as a result you’re going to pay for it. Well next time hire Americans.
In Latin American countries those kids would be looked up as family heroes,here we call them slaves!? If they want to work let them,if they’re getting paid is a good thing, lazy Americans rather complain and collect welfare instead of working, so why can’t this kids contribute to keep lazy Americans at home!? Isn’t this a good thing?
The real story is why companies hire minors and illegal migrant workers (for ANY job) in the first place.
And u wonder how your meat is so cheap. U want 99 cent chicken nuggets, this is how.
Yall, McDonald’s hires minors too
Find me an American who will do it for the same pay without also complaining the whole time, I’ll wait
These immigrants are NOT humans to those that vilify them, but boy are they USEFUL to US companies and employers. What hipocrytes!
Crazy that this doesn’t surprise me
So who going to jail?
These meat packing plants are being built all over the Midwest, not to employ Americans, but to exploit third world illegal slave labor while destroying these communities in the process. The burden it puts on local schools, hospitals, social services, etc. is devastating.
By paying for and eating meat, you automatically support illegal and unethical child labour.
Reese?
This is what happens when they let all the illegal immigrants have free rein in our country. Everyone suffers!
The only times they don’t mind immigrants 😏
It is dangerous conditions for 17.9 year olds. As soon as they turn 18 it is safe.
Profits over people
Now, there is a way to help determine the age of workers. If they have some type of standardized, government issued identification. You get that by becoming an American citizen, or getting a work visa. Yet another reason to not allow people to just walk into the country. If they were already in the US system and their parents approved of them doing this and they weren’t there against their will, what’s wrong? They’re just filling in the financial gaps between reality and the sunshine and rainbows story that’s pedaled by folks that say all immigration is legal. THIS is how those “Dreamers” survive- not on your picket signs and your “thoughts and prayers”.
This very same news organization has no problem with parents giving kids as young as 7 years old hormones so their child can become the “boy” or “girl” that they feel they are on the inside. This narrative that is being pushed by media, Hollywood, and the current admin. has no moral foundation. It’s just, “You should think this is good and that is bad”. There’s no rhyme or reason to any of it.
PSSI should be fined $50 Million to act as a deterrent to them and other companies exploiting child labour.
$1.5 Million is nothing to a company that big.
So many crossing the border without parents to protect them from these predatory practices. It’s sad to see them being exploited like this😥🤬
F**k Them Kids – Michael Jordan
Work work work work – Rihanna
Work Hard,Play Hard – Wiz Khalifa
😳😳😳
And now will only hire people who are not here legally.
I want to know which meat brands use PSSI! Not who the contractor is!
They came to work let them work.
Lock’em up. What a joke $1m fine for billion dollar company
EMPLOY AMERICANS!!!
And what exactly does that $1.5 million go to? Is that like a bribe to keep operating or is it used to pay for a huge celebration for a job well done? You just know that the hiring was done by middle management to get their family members jobs because middle management is already a bunch of underpaid immigrants from places where conditions are much worse. This is what it’s come down to, things could be worse, we could be Central America instead, thanks to a certain administration.
DISGUSTING
And guess what….every single republican state takes up more money than everyone else
When I was 14 I started working with my dad as a mechanic… These kids need these jobs. 14 is legal age. Quit trying to make America soft
Modern day slavery!!🤬🤬
Lol pathetic
The kids should get that money no government will keep that
2023…inslaving children not a problem…MERCY…or NO MERCY on all of those who were involved !!!
Bet no one goes to jail
I worked for these Aholes when i turned 18 and they had me using a bunch of chemicals that would burn my hands so bad. They also gave us “protective” goggles that didnt work and thanks to them my eyesight is poor also had us making us clean machines without the proper ( lock out, tag out ) training wich made an employee loose his finger. Also we where getting paid 9 dollars an hour. im now 27 but man i wish we sued the company back then when we had the chance
I’m sorry you went through that. Hopefully this company goes down. If you’re brave enough, you can be interviewed on the news about these conditions.
If you expose them, you might actually start a revolution of shutting down these companies or something.
Wtf
I got my first job when I was 9 at a sheet metal factory. In two weeks I was running the floor. Child labor laws are ruining this country.
These corporations are now trying to bribe the politicians to eliminate labor and worker rights laws.
We’re was OSHA
Blame your democrats for this, for letting them in to they country illegally
They could be traumatized inside, & we don’t see it outside. (Even elephant & other animals are saddened , frightened to see their own kind killed). Psychological maturity/training, in addition to bodily maturity, strength.
Is PSSI is also supporting the Trump initiative of border lock downs, wanting to keep bad hombres out, while setting up a recruiting system taking in illegal immigrant children. 🤡
So what? They are illegal and needs the money. In their country they begin to work as soon as they are out of the womb. Let them work, they are illegal, that’s fine.
Their Parents are bringing them along..their Parents who work there are encouraging them to pitch in.
Send them back, that will solve the problem.
BUILD THAT WALL. Trump where are you?
And the kids will not see one penny of the $1.5 M penalty.
American will never understand if we have these types of jobs in our countries it wouldn’t be an age limit. We just blame our country government that causing the majority of us to run to America for work
Driving to these jobs would be much more dangerous than actually doing the job. Sports that children participate in are much more dangerous than these jobs and make kids fall asleep in class.