Child workers found throughout Hyundai-Kia supply chain in Alabama

[hydbob]

Child workers found throughout Hyundai-Kia supply chain in Alabama

A Reuters investigation found child workers throughout Hyundai and Kia's supply chain in Alabama. State and federal authorities are probing their suppliers.

www.reuters.com

 

[wklglider]

People from developed countries may think this is inhumane and must be stopped, but those poor children live on their salaries. I don't want to hurt them in the name of "protecting them".

 

[borski]

People from developed countries may think this is inhumane and must be stopped, but those poor children live on their salaries. I don't want to hurt them in the name of "protecting them".

I understand what you’re saying, and totally get where you’re coming from. However, we have laws and have to do what’s right, rather than what’s easy. Child labor is rarely the “right” thing to do, and companies that use child labor are, by definition, exploiting those children.

Nobody wants to hurt them.

 

[wklglider]

I understand what you’re saying, and totally get where you’re coming from. However, we have laws and have to do what’s right, rather than what’s easy. Child labor is rarely the “right” thing to do, and companies that use child labor are, by definition, exploiting those children.

Nobody wants to hurt them.

I'm totally aware of the law. What I'm wondering are the follow-ups that could help the children after their employments are terminated.

FYI, hiring illegal migrants is a common practice in agricultural industry in southern states. Who knows if they are underaged or not.

 

[HC_79]

There's been numerous reports on not just manufacturing but food processing plants exploiting undocumented workers and now clearly have gone to an even more despicable level of child labor. It's modern day slavery and while it's easy to say "at least poorer families are at least getting money and food on the table" it certainly doesn't make it right or acceptable under any means.

It's also hilarious to me that the states these occur in are often very, very red states who oppose any form of immigration and want the borders closed but yet they have no issues smuggling people in an exploiting them. Are they taking their jobs? doesn't seem like it because you have no issues exploiting them knowing they can't do anything about it for fear of being caught \ deported.

People shit all over China for this sort of stuff and yet it's going on in our own backyard. No excuses, it's just plain wrong!

 

[wklglider]

IMO, the best thing we can do is to make sure they are well insured so that they can get proper medical treatments once they fall and get hurt. We are afraid of losing jobs and so do they. I can't imagine what kind of life they have been through if they are so afraid of being deported. Although they're children, I feel they're probably more grown up inside than most of us adults.