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Today Reuters is reporting that underage workers - some as young as 12 - have toiled in a hazard-laden Alabama metal stamping plant that is a subsidiary of car-giant @Hyundai. Read the investigation w/ @jschney @kristinacooke here:https://t.co/ATtf5SJVeH— Mica Rosenberg (@micarosenberg) July 22, 2022

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.

The girl, who turns 14 this month, and her two brothers, aged 12 and 15, all worked at the plant earlier this year and weren't going to school, according to people familiar with their employment. Their father, Pedro Tzi, confirmed these people's account in an interview with Reuters.

Police in the Tzi family's adopted hometown of Enterprise also told Reuters that the girl and her siblings had worked at SMART. The police, who helped locate the missing girl, at the time of their search identified her by name in a public alert.

Reuters is not using her name in this article because she is a minor.

  • HauntedBySpectacle [he/him, comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    I am thinking this morning of the men in the mills and the factories; of the men in the mines and on the railroads. I am thinking of the women who for a paltry wage are compelled to work out their barren lives; of the little children who in this system are robbed of their childhood and in their tender years are seized in the remorseless grasp of Mammon and forced into the industrial dungeons, there to feed the monster machines while they themselves are being starved and stunted, body and soul. I see them dwarfed and diseased and their little lives broken and blasted because in this high noon of Christian civilization money is still so much more important than the flesh and blood of childhood. In very truth gold is god today and rules with pitiless sway in the affairs of men.

    • Eugene V. Debs (from Statement to the Court Upon Being Convicted Of the Sedition Act)