McDonald's Went Years Without Noticing Employees Were Human Trafficking Victims, Report Finds: "Can't Undo the Damage to My Mental Health" (www.latintimes.com)
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MediaBiasFactChecker@lemmy.world on 01 Oct 2024 07:24 next collapse
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llii@discuss.tchncs.de on 01 Oct 2024 08:23 next collapse

BBC source: www.bbc.com/news/articles/c2kdg84zj4wo

TheFriar@lemm.ee on 01 Oct 2024 13:05 collapse

[McDonalds] said it cares “deeply” about all employees and promised that - working with franchisees - it would “play our part alongside government, NGOs [Non-governmental organisations] and wider society to help combat the evils of modern slavery”.

What fucking empty fucking tripe. They couldn’t give half a fuck. Burn all corps to the fuckin ground.

putitoutwithyourbootsted@piefed.social on 01 Oct 2024 08:30 next collapse

Yea missing the obvious warning signs like “gang members sitting in on job interviews”. Totally normal.

Spacehooks@reddthat.com on 01 Oct 2024 11:45 collapse

Very well dressed?

SGGeorwell@lemmy.world on 01 Oct 2024 09:40 next collapse

If businesses cant tell the difference between employees and slaves, then we all have a major fucking problem.

FlyingSquid@lemmy.world on 01 Oct 2024 10:01 next collapse

Oh they can tell.

Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world on 01 Oct 2024 12:47 next collapse

I mean, they’re “employing” slaves from the penal system already, so the line is blurry at best…

db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 02 Oct 2024 06:56 collapse

There’s a reason we call it wage slavery

rand_alpha19@moist.catsweat.com on 01 Oct 2024 11:08 next collapse

Without noticing or without caring? These thugs went to their victims' job interviews with them and forced them to work over 70 hours per week.

21Cabbage@lemmynsfw.com on 01 Oct 2024 12:20 next collapse

“without noticing” is pulling a lot of weight in that headline. Innocent until proven guilty and all that but I’m willing to bet there were at least some individuals ‘in’ on the deal.

the_post_of_tom_joad@sh.itjust.works on 01 Oct 2024 12:47 next collapse

Considering mcDs is moving towards prison labor now i absolutely believe they’ve at least deliberately crafted a hiring policy that allows for this and other abuses of labor and law.

dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net on 01 Oct 2024 12:53 collapse

I don’t know if this is true in the UK but in the US McD’s locations are nearly all franchises owned by local business owners. So McDonald’s the corporation could reasonably be unaware that the 15 (say) locations in Dallas TX owned by Horatio Hornblower were all staffed by trafficked persons.

I’m not saying this would absolve McDonald’s of responsibility but it would address the “being unaware” part.

Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world on 01 Oct 2024 13:22 collapse

How is enslaving people not a life in prison, buried under the jail type of crime? These victims should be allowed to beat their slaves to death in the town square

andrewta@lemmy.world on 01 Oct 2024 15:41 collapse

Typo there: you said “slaves” I think you meant slavers.