Pro life until they can be pro teens dying for cooperate profit.
Ribbit
Who in their right fucking mind thinks letting teenagers work at landfills, meat processing plants, and logging companies is a good idea?! I think the record clearly shows that teenagers don’t always make the best damn decisions. Jesus wept this shit is insanity.
Party of family values…. They’re going to extract every last drop of value from them kids.
Who in their right fucking mind thinks letting teenagers work at landfills, meat processing plants, and logging companies is a good idea?!
Well when COVID killed off a bunch of your workforce because you pretended it didn’t exist and you don’t know how many because you refused to keep accurate counts, and a bunch more retired because they figured they were close enough and COVID gave them an excuse, and all the undocumented immigrants are leaving because you’re passing laws targeting them and to them it’s not worth the pittance you’ve been gleefully paying them under the table- well, you’ve got to get more slaves from somewhere, right?
The same kind of people who, in Florida, are going to teach kids that slavery “taught black people valuable life skills.”
Remember kids, if your arm gets ripped off by a meat grinder, that’s not a horrific and totally preventable accident. No, it’s a “life skill” you’ve just learned! “Getting your arm ripped off is painful.” If we don’t have kids shoving their hands into meat grinders, how are they going to learn these life lessons?
And generally the pay is fuckin’ horseshit. Can barely pay rent at those payrates, let alone groceries for your family.
Which is why they want kids to do the work, kids will work for less money.
Which means adults that would be doing that job also get paid less because there’s more competition for those spots.
Remove child labor and the rich owners might be slightly less rich. Which republicans vehemently disagree with.
Desperately poor people let it happen, and in this day and age have to let it happen. Meanwhile corpo fucking greed will take on anyone willing to work the shit wages those jobs offer.
You are supposed to be 18 or older to work in meat processing. I saw an article that said false info may have been provided for that kid who came from a staffing agency (which may or may not be true). I don’t have an issue with a 16 year old working at a landfill or logging company. Both are probably good paying summer jobs and possibly where they would have ended up working after high school.
I do have a problem with unsafe working conditions, improper training, loose regulations, and lack of accountability. When money becomes more important than people bad things tend to happen to workers regardless of age.
Logging is actually a very unsafe and dangerous activity. Logging actually has a pretty high injury and fatality rate.
Landfills probably less so, but they really don’t have very many jobs. You’ve got a couple of guys who maybe work the weigh stations doing paperwork, and then a few heavy equipment operators.
Really any job that includes operating heavy machinery with the potential to kill people really shouldn’t be done by 16-year-olds.
I lived in an area that had a huge logging industry that eventually became one dude, one machine, and truck that comes and hauls them off to the port. But I was there just after the full mechanization and automation of the industry. So the old timers were still around.
And a lot of those dudes were named things like “three fingered Jack” and “one armed Rick” and “Lefty” … all from industrial logging accidents for a village of like 500 people.
operating heavy machinery with the potential to kill people really shouldn’t be done by 16-year-olds.
14 year olds can get drivers licenses in South Dakota (source, which of course requires either scripting to view the text or opening the page source).
Take a bow conservatives… you made this happen.
Well we obviously don’t care about kids getting shot up in schools, so why the hell would we care about them getting killed on the job?
The people pushing child labor: “Kids getting killed in schools is a tragedy. They should be getting killed in manufacturing plants so we can at least extract some usefulness out of them before we dump their tiny corpses on the sidewalk!”
