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In reply to the discussion: Child workers found throughout Hyundai-Kia supply chain in Alabama [View all]marble falls
(58,726 posts)... kids for peanuts. How about 14 yr old bus drivers? Bar tenders?
Just because someone else does it doesn't make it right. Like your mama once asked you: if Jimmy jumped off a bridge - would you jump, too?
It's not good and there is great pressure to end it.
https://www.forbes.com sites forbesbusinesscouncil 2021 08 25 how-businesses-can-stop-child-labor-in-their-supply-chains
How Businesses Can Stop Child Labor In Their Supply Chains - Forbes
Aug 25, 2021In their latest estimates just published in June, the U.N. anticipates another 9 million children will become child laborers by the end of 2022. For most global companies, underaged labor ...
https://www.ilo.org asia areas child-labour lang--en index.htm
Child Labour in Asia and the Pacific - International Labour Organization
research by the ilo's international programme for the elimination of child labour (ipec) has found working children in a number of economic sectors, including domestic labour, seafood processing, garment and footwear factories, mining and quarrying, pyrotechnics, rag-picking and scavenging, rubber and sugar-cane plantations, entertainment and
https://www.nytimes.com 1998 05 13 business international-business-nike-pledges-to-end-child-labor-and-apply-us-rules-abroad.html
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS; Nike Pledges to End Child Labor And Apply U.S ...
May 13, 1998Mr. Knight's pledges did not include increased wage, a major complaint of critics who say that Nike and other American companies pay workers in China and Vietnam less than $2 a day and workers in...
https://www.nytimes.com roomfordebate 2014 07 16 what-standards-of-child-labor-should-apply-in-developing-countries to-end-child-labor-washington-must-press-companies-to-act
To End Child Labor, Washington Must Press Companies to Act
Jul 16, 2014The United States and other developed countries were able to restrict child labor domestically because they faced no blackmail from global competition. It is these pressures that led to the...
https://share.america.gov us-stop-forced-labor-xinjiang-china
U.S. expands push to stop forced labor in Xinjiang | ShareAmerica
Jun 30, 2021On June 24, U.S. Customs and Border Protection issued what is known as a "Withhold Release Order" against the Hoshine Silicon Industry Co. Ltd. based on evidence the Xinjiang-based company uses forced labor. The order blocks import of Hoshine's silica-based products, which are used to make solar panels, electronics and other goods.
https://www.change.org p nestlé-stop-the-child-labor-in-the-cocoa-plants-in-west-africa-and-the-low-wages
Petition · Stop the child labor in the cocoa plants in west Africa and ...
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Is this what you want here in the US: a THIRD WORLD labor market???
Are you sure you're a Democrat?