US poultry workers forced to wear diapers on job

[willnotwill]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/poultry-workers-work-conditions-report_us_5731fca7e4b016f3789711df?section=india

[Midwest Babygirl]

Saw this earlier on Facebook.

[Elfy]

It is pretty horrendous that these things happen in America or any other of the richer countries (since I have little doubt this isn't a US only phenomenon). I mean it is bad that it happens anywhere, but you would think more developed countries would have better conditions even for the lowest worker.

[Midwest Babygirl]

Unfortunately not.

[willnotwill]

While the problem has always been there, the diaper aspect is more often than not female worker oriented.

[technomonkey]

http://woodtv.com/2016/05/12/report-us-poultry-workers-forced-to-wear-diapers-on-job/

[Bettypooh]

Like they say about sausage, if you like foods processed in a factory then you never want to go see them done. You really DON'T want to know what goes on in those places. A local chicken-processing plant was staffing with illegal immigrants but raids and a new system of fines per illegal worker on site changed that but they're still minimum wage and being coerced into working extra hours for free, denied breaks, lunches cut short etc if they don't meet their production goals. And fired if they don't oblige willingly and quietly. People don't stay there long- there are better jobs to be had and they soon move on to them

Bettypooh

[DL4LIFE]

Paul McCartney once said.... "If slaughter houses had glass walls everyone would be a vegetarian"

[freswith]

This is rated as the second most viewed article on the Daily Telegraph website today.

[maxmac97]

this wont be happening once Trump becomes president

[Abdl1396]

This is a much deeper issue than than just this.

[WBDaddy]

On 5/16/2016 at 4:15 AM, maxmac97 said:

this wont be happening once Trump becomes president

[spark]

[Darkfinn]

1 hour ago, spark said:

[spark]

3 hours ago, Darkfinn said:

There's a great op-ed that Nick Hanauer wrote for Politico back in 2014 called "The Pitchforks Are Coming..."

[WBDaddy]

Even the great libertarian thinker Milton Friedman recognized the need to address the "gun to the head" employers held when in negotiations with prospective employees - the threat of starvation and

[Cya]

On 5/16/2016 at 1:15 AM, maxmac97 said:

this wont be happening once Trump becomes president

[Bettypooh]

Americans generally don't want these jobs:

[WBDaddy]

Of course, people talk about the 50's and how prosperous we were, and talk about "getting back there".

No one realizes that we were only prosperous during WWII and its immediate aftermath because of the war itself.

[Darkfinn]

On 5/30/2016 at 0:46 PM, WBDaddy said:

Of course, people talk about the 50's and how prosperous we were, and talk about "getting back there".

No one realizes that we were only prosperous during WWII and its immediate aftermath because of the war itself.

Ah... someone who has read their history books and understands.

[spark]

On 5/30/2016 at 2:30 AM, Cya said:

You know it. Americans will get these jobs!

[Bettypooh]

Not just the 50's but the 60's were good economically- maybe even the earliest of the70's as well, but then things started going downhill after that and in the 80'scthat hill got steeper It wasn't all war-related. We made products which were worth buying and we were at the forefront