The company, Tuff Torq, was fined nearly $300,000 for hiring 10 children. It must also set aside $1.5 million to help the immigrant minors who were illegally employed.

cross-posted from: https://mander.xyz/post/11235723

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/13576449

The company, Tuff Torq, was fined nearly $300,000 for hiring 10 children. It must also set aside $1.5 million to help the immigrant minors who were illegally employed.

Immigrant children as young as 14 were found working illegally amid dangerous heavy equipment at a Tennessee firm that makes parts for lawn mowers sold by John Deere and other companies, according to Labor Department officials.

The company, Tuff Torq, was fined nearly $300,000 for hiring 10 children. As part of a consent agreement with the federal government, the company is also required to set aside $1.5 million to help the children who were illegally employed. Ryan Pott, general counsel for Tuff Torq’s majority owner, the Japanese firm Yanmar, acknowledged the violations to NBC News.

  • AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world
    44·
    3 months ago

    I don’t see the problem. These peasant kids came out of peasant mothers. This is their sole purpose in life, generating capital for their economic betters in exchange for the minimal subsistence they’re benevolently permitted to exist under.

    Kudos to my fellow peasants for ramping up capital battery maturation rates. It will be integrated into the owner’s quarterly earnings forecasts going forward.

    That said, larger increases in earnings will of course be expected next quarter. Remember, you are expected to be happy to serve your economic betters, so smile around them so as not to make them feel any negative emotions about our subjugation, no matter your irrelevant internal feelings. Keeping our capitalists happy is its own reward. Live vicariously through their lives of lavish, modern Pharoah like gluttony.

    That is all, my fellow batteries, and remember, if you’re reading this, why the FUCK aren’t you making our owners more money right now?!

    • Kaity@leminal.spaceEnglish
      3·
      3 months ago

      Because I was allotted 30 minutes to finish a training session and it just took me 15 minutes

    • GBU_28@lemm.eeEnglish
      25·
      3 months ago

      If people are capital batteries, the sovcits are right

      • AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world
        5·
        3 months ago

        No, sane people don’t tell the person with a gun to their head that bullets don’t apply to them. That isn’t resistance, that’s self-delusion.

        They’re just in denial about the problem in a different way than the capitalism sycophant peasants. The former believes they can opt out of their captivity like its a kids game, sorry cousin doesn’t work that way short of suicide, and the latter decided to go the Stockholm syndrome route and love their captor.

        • GBU_28@lemm.eeEnglish
          13·
          3 months ago

          They explicitly believe the government has used them as collateral, that hat the value of them has earned interest over time, and that they should be able to access that capital. Y’all are bedfellows

          • AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world
            2·
            3 months ago

            We don’t even agree on the same source of entrenched power as the problem, but believe whatever you like.

            • GBU_28@lemm.eeEnglish
              11·
              3 months ago

              They believe their labor is collateral used by the state, via industry. The only difference is they think they can download a form to access it

                • GBU_28@lemm.eeEnglish
                  1·
                  3 months ago

                  There’s a sub here about Facebook posts from them it is hilarious.

                  I sent in 10 silver coins and sealed the envelope with a red thumb print! Why didn’t that pay off my mortgage???