Federal agencies investigating as many as ten Hyundai plants in Alabama over the use of child labor, more than double the number of plants cited in August.
into the matter, and has just published another lengthy investigative piece about underage labor in the Hyundai Group industrial ecosystem in Alabama. The news organization says it found at least four factories in the area used child labor, and that"federal agencies are probing whether kids have worked at as many as a half dozen additional manufacturers throughout the automakers’ supply chain in the southern U.S. state.
The report names two more suppliers. Hwashin is a wholly Hyundai-owned plant in Greenville, AL, while Ajin is a supplier in Cusseta, AL owned by a Korean-based parent company also called Ajin. In early, 2021, a local school official reported Hwashin to county authorities for possibly hiring kids as young as 12.
How is this happening? Partly through staffing agencies who stay in business by filling positions. The report dives into what it calls the"partially interconnected network of suppliers and staffing agencies, many Korean-owned, [that] exists to serve the Hyundai brands.
Why didn't other workers say anything? Because these factories resurrect local fortunes by playing an"important economic role," as Hyundai pointed out in a statement toWhy do these stories keep coming up? Because it's too profitable to quit the practice. The U.S.
The DOJ didn't comment on the state of its investigations, but we probably haven't heard the last of this. Make that: We definitely haven't heard the last of this.
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