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Pete Ross Junior

(404 posts)
Thu Mar 2, 2023, 03:04 PM Mar 2023

Cheetos Checks its Factories for Child Workers... Loses Half its Workforce Overnight

Cheetos Checks its Factories for Child Workers... Loses Half its Workforce Overnight (MSN)

n February 25th, The New York Times released a scathing report on the United States' migrant child labor epidemic. In the piece, Hannah Dreier documents the dramatically increasing number of child laborers working illegally for large corporations. After its publication, the Biden administration announced a crackdown on migrant child labor, putting pressure on corporations named in the article such as J. Crew, Ford, GM, Ben & Jerry’s, Walmart, Hearthside Food Solutions and more to combat the epidemic.

In a follow-up tweet, Dreier reported that Hearthside, the parent company of Cheetos, Nature Valley, Lucky Charms, had lost a significant percentage of its workforce after checking for child laborers.

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Cheetos Checks its Factories for Child Workers... Loses Half its Workforce Overnight (Original Post) Pete Ross Junior Mar 2023 OP
Wow underpants Mar 2023 #1
Remember when migrant children were being operated from their parents FalloutShelter Mar 2023 #2
You are not talking about R. Scott and Desatan's escapades are you? Or are you talking Maraya1969 Mar 2023 #7
Not sure I understand gristy Mar 2023 #8
Asking for a friend... is snark. FalloutShelter Mar 2023 #9
You can't convince me they weren't aware of this the whole time. nt in2herbs Mar 2023 #3
This. -nt CrispyQ Mar 2023 #4
This message was self-deleted by its author getagrip_already Mar 2023 #5
hey, sometimes it can be hard to tell..... getagrip_already Mar 2023 #6
This message was self-deleted by its author Chin music Mar 2023 #10
This is a problem with the whole system. Pete Ross Junior Mar 2023 #11
This message was self-deleted by its author Chin music Mar 2023 #12

FalloutShelter

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2. Remember when migrant children were being operated from their parents
Thu Mar 2, 2023, 03:16 PM
Mar 2023

at the border and bussed around the country????? Is this what happened to them????
Asking for a friend.

Maraya1969

(22,997 posts)
7. You are not talking about R. Scott and Desatan's escapades are you? Or are you talking
Thu Mar 2, 2023, 03:43 PM
Mar 2023

about Trump's technique of separating the children at the border?

It sounds like these kids tried to get these jobs - which is really sad if you think about it because at least they had extra money then and now........what?

FalloutShelter

(12,749 posts)
9. Asking for a friend... is snark.
Thu Mar 2, 2023, 04:12 PM
Mar 2023

Meaning it seems obvious and need not ask.
Kids disappeared from the border and were bussed all over the country… due to the child separation policy of TFG. Was this the plan all along? child labor?

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Pete Ross Junior

(404 posts)
11. This is a problem with the whole system.
Thu Mar 2, 2023, 06:45 PM
Mar 2023

This is how the USA has been working for decades.
Blaming it all on Trump is an excuse not really to do anything.

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