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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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[-] SGGeorwell@lemmy.world 74 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 28 points 2 weeks ago

Oh they can tell.

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago

I mean, they're "employing" slaves from the penal system already, so the line is blurry at best..

[-] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 weeks ago

There's a reason we call it wage slavery

[-] putitoutwithyourbootsted@piefed.social 58 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] Spacehooks@reddthat.com -2 points 2 weeks ago

Very well dressed?

[-] rand_alpha19@moist.catsweat.com 22 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[-] llii@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] TheFriar@lemm.ee 5 points 2 weeks ago

[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.

[-] Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago

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 8 points 2 weeks ago

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

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