Feds find 31 child laborers in dangerous meat plant jobs

[Tanuki]

https://ktoe.com/2022/11/11/feds-31-kids-found-working-overnight-on-meat-plant-kill-floors/

"Federal investigators are moving against a massive sanitation company that’s accused of employing children as young as 13 on dangerous overnight shifts at food processing plants. The Department of Labor requested a temporary injunction Wednesday against Wisconsin-based Packers Sanitation Services after investigators found at least 31 children employed to clean industrial equipment. A Labor Department complaint said at least two child workers suffered caustic chemical burns and other injuries while working on the floor where cattle are butchered at a plant in Grand Island, Nebraska. Investigators said they found child workers also at two plants in Minnesota."

(Reports from other sources described the children as Spanish speakers, so the exploitation seems especially targeted)

[Chainfire]

1. More of that government overreach that the Right complains about.

Unnecessary regulation! What are those little brown kids good for if not factory or farm work?

Fines will be levied, work will go on, and of course, no executive will go to jail.

[LakeArenal]

2. I swear my State of WI leads the country in new evil bull shit.

Yes, Texas and Florida runs with WI Republican role models. But WI seems to think up the worst.

[bbernardini]

3. From their website. Explains a lot.

"PSSI is founded in Mt. Pleasant, Iowa by Tom Turner and John Wright, who had a vision of providing contract sanitation services using a non-unionized workforce. His first plant, Illini Beef in Joslin, IL (now part of Tyson Foods), is still one of our customers today."

[halfulglas]

4. This, of course, is why so much dark money was thrown to the GOP during this election.

The American oligarchs don't want the administration to have the power to enforce present or enact new regulations. They don't really care about sliding abortion, foreign policy, banning books, education, etc. The dark money groups gave massive amounts of cash to the GOP for things like this. They don't want increased scrutiny to regulations, mergers and other problems that have not been able to be addressed with GOP in charge of WH, Senate or house.