reuters.com/world/us/exclusive-hyundai-subsidiary-has-used-child-labor-alabama-factory-2022-07-22

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.

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Reuters learned of underage workers at the Hyundai-owned supplier following the brief disappearance in February of a Guatemalan migrant child from her family's home in Alabama.

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Several of these minors, they said, have foregone schooling in order to work long shifts at the plant, a sprawling facility with a documented history of health and safety violations, including amputation hazards.
Most of the current and former employees who spoke with Reuters did so on the condition of anonymity. Reuters was unable to determine the precise number of children who may have worked at the SMART factory, what the minors were paid or other terms of their employment.

damn they got kids on starting that grindset early

Were turning into china

We literally have had legal slavery since this country was founded this disgusting s*** is nothing new here in the US

yeah an it's a reason we got laws against child labor lol cuz otherwise companies would scum it up big time

Damn I bought a Hyundai in January

You gotta go return that

Did you get the Ioniq

Nah I got a tuscon actually

#ROLLTIDE

Are you kidding?

heh. capitalist USA is so much better than COMMUNIST CHINA because we dont use child labor

you wish. China is on a path to worldwide superiority and global hegemony whereas the United States is regressing from both a cultural and technological perspective.

China is the future of the world.

Alabama

Look at this guy falling for anti china probaganda, yikes

we only outsource child labor!

🍆 🚴

Okay John Cena

U lot hating these kids just trying to rally bands like osama

it’s crazy how they did literally no investigation into the staffing companies that allegedly recruited the children

My '06 Elantra hatchback still running

Not just recruited the one kid working there was literally kidnapped

i pledge allegiance to President Xi and the CCP. you'll regret not doing the same

great fanfic