Just an opinion here, Have any of you given thought that maybe these children want to work? If they are immigrants, they don't know fluent English, might have little to no education, and there might not be any other jobs that would hire them. These kids might want to earn money to send back home or provide for the rest of their family. It might seem odd here in the US, but in other countries, kids have to start working at a very early age, such as 11-12 yrs. Kids in the South American countries aren't as privileged as we are in the US. I'm not stating that it's right or legal. It's just the sad and unfortunate real truth. Just a thought.
There is absolutely no way company management could not know that children were working in their plants. There should financial and criminal penalties. No more of this hiding behind a corporate structure to commit crimes.
Why kids can work I'm pretty sure just limits on hrs and if ya drop out of school you can work full time,what person didn't have a job at 13-15yr old,and they throw bs trafficking on it
I work at tyson and they would come clean our plant up until two weeks ago when we got a third shift and got rid of PSSI. I would always tell people “dude they look so young. That girl looks 12 or 13” and always felt off about it. I remember that girl always cleaned my line. She always looked sad and lost. Never showed emotion.
They are told not to make contact with you because they will get busted. They now they came to work because they are the only source of income for their families and they have to pay the smuggler that pass them here, they owe thousands and they have to pay or they will go after whomever is back home.
Wait are we going start cracking down on Hollywood from them having little kids work how is it a kid can go get a job acting in a movie as young as a few months old but my daughter can’t go get a job at the age of 12 on the weekend working at an ice cream shop ?
I’ve always said immigration problems are handled by blaming the immigrants but the enemy is the employers that hire them illegally without any government recourse. While there is demand there will be demand for people to work illegal in the US. Same with drugs while there is demand there will be supplies. It needs to handled by both sides of the problem. The company needs to be shut down and have stiff fines where it hurts the CEO and owners.
Exactly. If these companies didn't hire them in the first place they wouldn't try to cross over to make money here. But we all know that a lot of corporate companies want cheap labor, and high profits.
I've met some immigrants who are in their 20s but are 5'4 and look like they are 13. If your hiring them in groups it might be easy for actual kids to sneak in
This is not acceptable, HR, Plant Manager, And CEO should all do 3 years in prison, no exceptions. Child Labor for profit should be a federal offense and come with Federal sentencing.
@@ding9633 -Human trafficking, unfortunately, is all over the place. And they aren't even properly checking out who the unaccompanied minors are being released to anymore. Children & young people are extremely vulnerable & there are plenty of villans out there looking to prey upon them. Especially pedophiles. Perhaps you aren't aware.
It probably was the best thing to happen to them until these nosy Karens got all up in their business. They were making money and staying under the radar but now they're out of work and getting deported back to the third world hellhole they tried to escape.
Well, this happened in Nebraska, a deep red state. This video explains why the GOP drags its feet on immigration but talks big on camera. You're looking at their donors in the video now.
Yeah, PSSI may be directly to blame, but let's not pretend that the company that hired them was unaware they had children cleaning their facilities. They need to be held accountable as well.
The U.S. gov't protects corporations at ALL costs now a days. Lengthy trial and then they'll be fined and go back to business as usual. Watch...🤬 This was initially reported SIX (6) years ago!!! Business as usual since then...☹️
13-15 year olds are teenagers, not children. If the media reported them as teenagers, y'all would be calling them teenagers. But they called them children, so y'all do too. And the US dept of labor allows 14 year olds to work with parental consent. So I guess it's legal for "children" to work anyway.
@ghee buttersnaps not graveyard shifts, not these jobs. There's a reason we don't allow companies to hire them on certain shifts. They are under standard working age (16) but more importantly under 18 so yea still children.
I find it VERY difficult to believe the corporations that own these slaughterhouses, like JBS and TYSON are not aware of these practices, since they are not new. It's their plants, their facilities, the night shift management team or the security team should have informed higher-ups about what is going on at the plants, and even if they didn't they have security cameras all over the plants. They have to go after the whole chain of command, not just after the weakest link.
They all used to use the same SSN years ago at this plant I was working at. You would know if the big people came through. Our supervisor used to let them hide out on the roof smh lol
This is a hush hush secret in the Mexican community. These children’s parents know they are working illegally, they put them up to it, someone inside the company (usually also. Hispanic) that’s in on it and allowing it to happen. They work for less and under the table. The company may not know as this is the work of a “coyote”.
You can not tell me, the adults working there couldn't tell they were children. When they are that young. It's all about getting a job done at the cheapest cost. So the owners and other higher paid employees put a blind eye to it because it's all about that money. It's just Despicable!
To be fair, I've met 18 year olds that look 13 and 13 year olds that look 18, it's absolutely possible people thought they were 18 and they had fake identities.
Wait are we going start cracking down on Hollywood from them having little kids work how is it a kid can go get a job acting in a movie as young as a few months old but my daughter can’t go get a job at the age of 12 on the weekend working at an ice cream shop ?
"Despicable!" ...? Realistically, that's just how the capitalist system works today and has worked since the "labour theory of value" was discarded as too non-profitable by the bourgeoisie. That's not going to change any as the government (the branch of capitalism that makes all the laws) is controlled by oligarchs who own everything. Anything the 98% "own" has been bought on the installment plan and is simply debt. Even a dozen eggs has become "the new caviar" as the price skyrockets. And we elect a president who -- like the children working in the slaughterhouse -- is performing like he's in his second childhood. Go figure!
When I was growing up in the 90’s in East Texas… two of my friends in middle school worked graveyard shifts at the chicken plant. Their parents were undocumented and they all had to work in order to survive. I didn’t realize that was strange until I asked my parents if I could also get a job.
The sad part is that if you ask the immigrants, they will still say it’s better than where they came from. Companies know this and that’s how the workers get exploited.
@@magesalmanac6424 We need to legally throw them in prison. American doesn't need these illegals anymore. They need to face justice. America doesn't need to be victimized by illegals
The plant is using "sub contractors" to get plausable deniability, and having them on grave shirt work means USUALLY no govt. worker will suddenly drop by to inspect. Someone called.
Chances are, they cleaned during graveyard shift because the plant was closed for the night. Would it make sense to clean it while meat processing is going on and plant employees are working?
This is disgusting and horrible. The company 100% needs to be held criminally accountable and there needs to be a federal investigation that traces down everyone responsible for taking advantage of those children AS WELL AS any other humans being exploited!
This is how you turn children, the next generation, into productive members of society and not have them become just as lazy and entitled as Millennials.😐👍
There have been so many issues with slaughterhouses, and they keep getting away with it. For example, that Smithfield plant by Crete, Nebraska often has people getting injured, but won't bother sending employees to an actual doctor, and if they go to an actual doctor, they deny knowing the person was injured. Absolutely sickening. Now this? These companies are the lowest of the low.
One of my best friends growing up in the elementary school was a Mexican kid who came and went like the wind. One day he was in my class at the beginning of the year and we became friends, he said his family worked in the fields and moved a lot and he looked sad, we used to always sit together at the lunch table and then one day he was just gone and never came back and it made me sad
True we travel from Texas in March to work in Idaho till November migrant season jobs none finish school we not from Mexico but that's what all family did travel for work 🤷
Not sorry but this is why they need to close the border because parents coming in with their kids clearly won't raise their kids right since they dumb enough to traffic they own kids and you got Americans who will unfortunately take advantage of their poverty and poor decision making of their parents.
I highly doubt they took “rigorous steps” to comply with the law. I was a victim of fraud from this exact company. Someone stole my identity to work under this company. This is terrible thinking it might have been one of those kids using my identity 💔 Theres no way they didnt know they were children
I worked at the usa government, all day long we death with people working under a borrowed social security card. You can have 4000 people working under my name alone
There was a guy who used to hang around homeless shelters, soup kitchens, and warming centers in Detroit who would pay homeless people 10 dollars for their names and social security numbers. I wonder what that was about?
How sickening! Management knew this was going on. This is going on all across this country. In Missouri over 800-900 foster kids came out missing, and no one is talking about it. Where are these kids? These people need to do jail time and throw the key away while you at it.
@SonyaSpot, I couldn’t believe this, but here’s what a quick Google search taught me, "1,780 Foster Kids Went Missing in Missouri in Two-and-a-Half Years." 😱
Those kids were faking their age after being urged by family… you act like they were being forced to work by the employer. They literally wanted to work and lied their way in
Human trafficking is wrong, but teens wanting to work is nothing new and pretty common here in CA farms. Charge the employer. Also, they didn't say the race of the kids but it sounds like they're from latin america and just want to work
Charge each and every exec with 50 counts of child abuse. The "fines" they'll pay will be far less than what they saved exploiting these kids. Until there are real consequences for the people at the top this will never stop.
The people at the top is president Biden who is literally bringing in illegals on a daily basis with his policies, lack of enforcement and refusal to complete the border wall.
As a previous chicken plant sanitation worker there are some machine so intricate and mechanically advanced it's quite impressive to even hear that kids that age were cleaning machines. It's definitely not a place for kids but here's the biggest part USDA has to check behind the sanitation workers every week at random between two and four times a week. and as part of the requirements by USDA the person responsible for cleaning the machine must be present during it's presentation and sign off on any tags outs and be present for lock out tag out safety requirements. Which would mean that USDA workers were also turning a blind eye to these kids. Smh
May God help us. There is no way to get around the fact that there were people depraved enough to put children to work at night in a horror show slaughterhouse.
Companies that hire children and illegals need to be fined $50.000 for each violation and that fine doubles for every violation there after up to 10 violation after that you lose your business.
Worked for this company about 4 years ago for 2 years. needless to say, they follow as little amount of guidelines they can and would get away with murder if they could, employees including supervisors never wearing proper PPE, relatives getting promotions to the top just a short period after they get hired on... And they’ve been hiring children and illegals knowingly and not giving any care about it. I’ve never worked a job where I’ve seen discrimination as much as I have when I was at this one. Hopefully everyone at PSSI gets what’s coming to them and they either get shut down or reconstructed starting with higher ups and the HR department. Don’t let them lie about something they’ve been covering up for years, it’s time to pay the price!
@@NiecieSavo and get sued i agree it they shouldve spoken out but the laws in our country favor these companies. Not everyone wants to be a hero even if they should. They should file a actual report now tho as many people are going to speak out. Safety in numbers
Wow, I used to work for this company about ten years ago. They had so many different chemicals, very hazardous health affecting chemicals that could have killed you. I remember using heavy duty alkaline cleaner and caustic powders that ate through my suit and clothes. Very little supervision and then pay was questionable. The upper management was making a lot of money. I know of one person that had a ranch where some of his employees would stay. None could speak English. I remember working 16 hour shifts for no overtime on my check . I'm surprised it took this long for them to finally get noticed..
Yeah when you work in the sciences they cherry picking with having you both salary and hourly and none of the benefits of the both. I was a chemist. Things needs to change. They never had proper PPE working with hazardous materials. I left that job after 6 months. It made me question why I got my degree in bios chemistry :(
"Pay that price. Either financially or criminally" Why should there be a choice?! The people of this country are disgusted by these violations commited against children. We don't want there to be a financial payoff, we want righteous judgement against these perpetrators!
I think criminally, don’t let these companies pay there way out of it. Next time you drive by a roofing company look who is doing the roofs. Mexicans are and I can bet if there are 10 Mexicans on the roof 5 are illegals.
13-15 year olds aren't children, they're teenagers. They're only children because the media just told you they were. The US department of labor allows 14 and up to work with parental consent. NBC stated there were "some" as young as 13. So most were old enough to work if someone signs a form.
@@gheebuttersnaps2011 infants, toddlers, kids, pre-teens, teens are CHILDREN. They don't know crap about this world, still have to be told NO, YES, WHEN, WHERE, WHAT, WHY, HOW and WHO. So shut up with that.
@@Mr.Taylor56 Ok, so teenagers are children, got it. So why are 18 year olds legally adults? Are you saying a 19 year old is a child? Or do you mean under 18? If so, are you a child until your 18th birthday? Should they change adults to 20? If that's the case, why is the drinking age 21? Shouldn't it be 20?
Yeah the open borders, the traffickers, the few bad actors at the company who hired them. You see, 2 issues that could have been stopped before it got to the company.
wont be its probably the kids taken from parents at the boarder. You know the trump way separate them at the board, cage them then let them work for $1 a day
What a silly comment. Why would you think that slaughterhouse workers need therapy? If you had ever met these workers you would know that this is not the case.
I worked for a month at a meat packing plant in Nebraska, mainly worked in the freezer area. I quit right away, I couldn’t handle the cold and the cold outside during winter. Just imagining kids working with chemicals and freezing temps is insane!
@@rhino6139 its crazy cause these kids have no other option. Their parents cant eveb afford to come to usa much less get a legal job to maintain the kids
I had my own Janitorial service in high school and my own lawn mowing service. Parents can't take your car if you bought it yourself and pay insurance and taxes.
I did a paper round when I was a kid but that was pretty different to doing overnight shifts at a slaughterhouse. Most businesses in my country require a full driving license for late night workers so they can drive home safely. This sounds like a horrific situation. Hopefully these children are rescued and there's a bigger investigation to see if there are children working in other agricultural and meat processing jobs.
Same I'm 19 and I was a paper girl delivering newspapers and catalogues to part of my town when I was 13. I would typically start delivering from anywhere between 7-9am and finish between 10-12 that morning. I would deliver once a week. It wasn't super hard but I still quit after five months because the pay was super bad, $10 a week/day/session.
Well if the shift start from 9pm to 9am.. they wont need a driving license to drive home safely since they can arrive at the working site on public transport or cycle (if they live nearby), and then take the public transport home the next day morning... 12 hrs shifts with 2 one hour rest intervals every 5 hours isnt a big deal, not sure about US labor laws..
@@paullang1505 Whoever was involved in the direct hiring of these children would be potentially liable for knowingly profiting from child labor/trafficking. It may not be the plant in particular but SOMEBODY committed a crime(s).
And yet Mexicans are called lazy and criminals by republicans and here you see young Mexican children working long hours for almost no pay. You ain’t going to catch an American kid doing this 💩, or American adult for that matter.
This is so horrible and sick and disgusting. Now im starting to wonder all those kids in cages that were unaccounted for or just released to anyone. I wonder how many of those children are now being forced to work like this. This needs a full government investigation until everyone involved is in jail.
Wow chill. Do you now know how this works? It's called an open border, way too many illegals, catch and release policies, traffickers and smugglers. I'd know, my dad works for DHS. This administration is terrible.
These ppl allow it! they literally undercut americans as they work for pennies which makes corporations feel entitled to their bodies! There is a reason afro americans are hated globally ... its bc they stand against colonization, corporations, and exploitation as a collective!!!
@@citizencoy4393 This isnt making the point you think its making. "These people" are doing what they need to do to make a living and prosper. The enemy here is the corporations and the system that allows this to happen. Plain and simple. This is not a YOU vs THEM thing. This is a ALL OF US saying this isint right and forcing corporations to act right. PERIOD.
@@emmanuelventura4252 Excuse me if I dont feel pity for ppl that are putting Americans out of work left and right as they boast online about working harder than Americans when all they do is accept more bs then Americans. Corporations are the issue but so are they for being so desperate they dont care who they cross for a literal crumb.
Human trafficking has always been a horrible truth, but when you open up borders and let people in by the tens of thousands every month things like this will just continue to get worse. The fact that there are really disgusting people out there that take advantage of any opportunity to make money. Is truly sad
From what I heard from a teacher who worked the graveyard shift through grad school, the graveyard shift is absolutely crushing. Dead tired. And these are children who may or may not attend school during the day.
I used to work 12 hour graveyard shifts part time while being a fulltime student and it was hard. Now I've gone back to working 8+ hour graveyard shifts and will be going back to grad school part time next month. My sleep schedule has been so messed up and I've been getting sick so much this past winter. I don't know how these kids have done it. Horrible.
People at the top in these companies know exactly what’s going on but play dumb when caught. Law enforcement needs to go after the top people in these companies for things to change
That would be the CEO, all of the management team at the work location, and the whole work crew who knew it was happening but did not speak up. The state government should be in trouble as well because clearly there is a severe lack of regulations in the industry.
They're insulated. The people that actually do it are far removed from graveyard shift operation. Shut the whole plant down so they feel the pain and take real action
@l r in a LEGAL setting and arrangement, sure. I worked at 13 but it was after school for 4 hours a day with state minimum wage, with safety and labor protections, and it was all above board and publicly visible. Only a _monster_ would defend the exploitation of children being hidden from sight in a dangerous environment.
This needs to be covered all over the media there's no possible way these companies were not aware of children working within these poor conditions! Exploitations at its finest !
Exploitation? In what way? Did the children want to work? Were they paid for their work? She makes human trafficking allegations and supplies no evidence for the assertion, using that to get on the news to try to raise awareness that company employed people below the legal working age on their cleaning crews. Im not against child labor laws but in this situation I think it was probably beneficial for the children working there and for the families of the children working there. What were the conditions, temperature and humidity variations and working with chemicals. Chemicals tells us nothing because literally, everything is chemicals. It's amazing how limited people in this country ability is to think critically and reach an independent conclusion based on the sum of the parts as opposed to adopting the conclusion being presented without observing the parts of the sum.
@@orionsimerl6539 Those kids were probably brought over here, because they wanted to come here. They probably didn't have money to pay, so they agreed to pay off their debt by working. They also provide people them with housing. I worked with someone a few months ago, that did that. He was living with other people in an apartment, which I'm sure they were doing what he was doing, working to pay off what they owe to the coyotes.
@@zombiesRUseless6880 While it's just.as likely that their family works at the factory and they also work at the factory, as it is they're working to pay off a coyote since she didn't supply even 1 statement of evidence supporting your claim, lets go with that narrative. As I understand the term a coyote is someone who brings people to the US from the southern border for a fee. You're saying that there are coyotes who offer to bring people over, house them, and find them a job to pay off the fee. In that situation people are living in impoverished circumstances and they have an opportunity to come to the United States and have food, work, income, and a place to stay but it may take them months to a year to pay back the coyote. Who in this situation is harmed and why should waste money pursuing charges against a company that has legal deniability of knowledge of child employment and that hasn't harmed anyone?
Sadly enough, because they are immigrant children with no legal documentation, there is a high chance that the company will be able to evade any responsibility as those children provided fake identification. I know of someone where i worked before that was a minor. I had to approach her carefully because i was able to quickly tell that there was no way she was above 18 (requirement to work at this establishment). Eventually after months of talking with her, she did tell me that she was only 14 and that her and her family had came here illegally. These same children, are the ones that grow into adulthood, work 2 jobs, eventually have children, and push their children to become better than what they ever had.
Compensate them for working willingly? They come here on their own wanting work. Even a few of my husband’s cousins came here illegally and as minors. It happens all the time. They come on their own escaping their parents of whom most do not give them permission. They want the work and get fake ids and it’s not so easy to tell their ages. This woman may or may not be telling the truth. But she knows they came on their own accord.
Every person who orchestrated or allowed this to occur should be held criminally responsible. These kids deserve better. What a horrific practice... These kids go to school during the day and work in dangerous conditions overnight.. Sickening 😭
@bikmeemee4474I mean they are kids and shouldn't be force to work at night, they should be home sleeping getting ready for school and it's pretty illegal too😬😬
@bikmeemee4474the fact that they are children, and didn’t have a choice. The fact that you even said this makes me wonder if you were personally involved.
As a former high school teacher, I had students who had part time jobs. But these kids didn't work full-time overnight shifts. At most, they worked 3 hours per shift on four days of the week, with at least one weekend night, plus 2 or 3 other weekday shifts. State laws regarding child labor were in place and were strictly applied and followed, with all forms signed by parents, students, and employers. If grades started to drop, meetings with the students and parents were held with the teacher and counselor in attendance. They couldn't work if they weren't able to keep up their grades. The practices and actions of the company cited in this vid are criminal. Shame on them and their greed. I hope they're investigated and held to account. These young kids need to go home after school and do their homework, and then go to bed at a reasonable hour so that they're able to go to school the next day and participate in their daytime classes. They need their education - not a rigorous and grueling work schedule.
My first job was working for an asian woman making cold calls for a newspaper subscription when i was 12 years old. I worked long hours and most of the time she shorted my paycheck. I took the job bc I had 4 friends from school that worked there. All of us LOVED the position bc it gave us access to money! even if we were being ripped off. We needed school clothes, school supplies, and lunch money. That lady gave us access that we otherwise would not have had. I look back angry but grateful at the same time bc our families needed the money. We were use to the exploitation.
@Nick Thompson Right. They're working full-time shifts. That's criminal on the employing company's part, and they definitely need to be investigated and slapped with fines for ignoring child labor laws.
When I was 14 I got a workers permit, and I had a part-time job after school hours. I was not allowed to operate, heavy machinery, or work with chemicals. I was only allowed to work a limited amount of hours because I was a minor still in school. I do believe the company needs to be look into. Whether it be the child’s choice said if they needed a job or to help support their family or if they’re being forced to work for a parent or some other issue going on I do believe that it needs to be got looked into.
Why is nobody asking the children about how well or bad they are treated and compensated. Why is nobody asking the children if they wanted to be there or not? Why is it suddenly so morally apprehensible to have children working? When my mother was growing up a developing country 40 years ago, everybody as young as 12 was out in the society looking for jobs to support their family, and be the head of the family when the parents are gone. They begged for work, was constantly afraid people wouldn’t accept them because of their inexperience/age, so they work extra hard and begged to prove themselves. They’d do anything from picking frozen fishes, making shoes soles, to working on the farms. To this day, I have never met a person in the states with as good of work ethic as my mother. Today that country has one of the best economies in the world, built on the back/industriousness of people from her generation. Today’s generation are coddled and rotten by the minutes. College is just another adult daycare and party hub.
@@hiyoryan3901 not all, but most children in the US are cared for in a way that they can just be kids and not have to worry about supporting a family at such young ages. There is no doubt children are capable of it (such as your mom) but I don't want my kids to have to worry about that stuff. That would be my job. Theirs is to go to school and be kids as long as they reasonably can. Also, maybe reconsider labeling an entire generation as "coddled" and "rotten", showing a bit of bias
@@3freak100 my mom did the same I was very sheltered, I went to work anyways at 15. By graduation I had $40,000 in cash, a lifted f250, a Camaro ss, 1971 chevelle, lifted Escalade etc. Being a kid is cool but being poor is not. $400 a week adds up when you’re a kid at home with no bills or bad habits.
Makes you think twice about the meat they're putting out. If they have no regards for children, would they care about the meat you eat? This is sickening. Too young to be working in an environment like that, first and foremost and then they are working the overnight shift, which is just so wrong....finally, their age. I hope they this company gets the book thrown at them real hard. Hugs for those kids. :(
When I was 12, I lied about my age to get a job. I was raised by a single mother who needed help. She never asked us too but my siblings and I did what we had to do to survive. I understand the kids who chose to work there and I don’t necessarily blame their parents because I’ve been there. However, if any child was forced to work then the company and parents should be charged.
Thank u .. families have bills to pay and food to get food stamps don't last long like ppl think..it's sad but this is the real 🌎 it's getting ruff by the day
You know, any US state allows and supports emancipation that gives you the legal right to work if economically hurting to do so. Illegal is illegal. You found an employer that did not report your existence or wages. If you used falsified documentation or stole someone’s identity, no matter how you slice it… that’s a felony you are admitting to.
@@noneya8217 Your comment makes no sense! Its really a poor excuse. What they did was AGAINST THE LAW, whether borders or opened or closed. You probably believed that storming the capital was justified, because that MORONIC leader told you so.
All large corporate manufacturing and processing plants should be investigated for any possible, and likely, massive violations. The excuse is that there isn’t enough funds available for the task. So they get away with it over and over. How will they ever be held accountable if society doesn’t work together for change?
ok 💡 let's make this make sense okay? where and who are the parents? we're the parents compromised or owed any debt? are the illegal? where are these children from? are their cameras looking out into areas can we get a license plate number etc.
@@scarletdamsel3139 I see you've posted this several times. Did you not hear that these children are suspected of victims of human trafficking? They haven't even been able to determine where or how the children were housed.
@@hed_sh0tz__638 These 5 plants ship meats to other companies in other states. It's unlikely those companies were aware of what was happening. However, if they were aware, of course they should face consequences. Unless the authorities can show this is a case of human trafficking, violating labor laws, even child labor laws, will result in fines only. If it is a case of human trafficking, it's likely the "middle men" will be the ones to go down -- NOT the higher ups who've been stuffing their bank accounts with the profits made on the backs of middle schoolers.
I am so angry about this. Someone in management all know about this. My heart just goes out to these kids and the parents who may not know where their children are. Follow the money.
That's why humans need to stop making more humans. The human race is beyond disgusting. No other animal hurts this planet as much as the vile human animal. Hopefully vegans apply their will on humanity.
@@8646aarongetting paid crumbs bro. Wake up.. this ain’t mowing the lawn type of thing.. they’re doing a job that requires chemicals. You really think they wore the right PPE? This is cruelty. Don’t defend it.
There are AMERICAN children working all over this country and yes sometimes at nite. They often are never paid and start earlier then the age of 5. It's called agriculture. It's how you people get your food. Your welcome.
I've worked for PSSI for almost 10 years and have seen MANY things PSSI corporate office allows that are blatant violations of the law, and if you someone calls the corporate office to make a complaint they are fired the next day for something random.
Timothy Hutchins. If you would of drove someone to a Bank and you knew that he was going to rob it, you would of been charged as well. With holding information of a criminal act(s) in itself is a crime, and since you have knowledge of a felony, and you said nothing to protect those children, you should be charged. If one of these kids would of been been killed, or injured, the question is, knowing that you have knowledge, could you live with your self or was and is money more important?
Slaughterhouses are notorious for mistreating and abusing employees. The conditions for the animals and the humans I these places are absolutely despicable. It is a perfect place to hide human trafficking or at the very least child labor. Another reason to shut down factory farms and slaughterhouses in country. This is not the right way to do things. This company should absolutely be held accountable and hopefully as a country we find a better way.
If A bar/Pub what ever you want to call it, serves a minor even if they have a fake I.D. The bar and owners are held responsible and could even loose their license. (This has happened in my county a couple times so I know what I'm talking about) So why should this place not be held accountable?
Third party contractor. The slaughterhouse and the cleaning company are separate entities. The slaughterhouse is under no obligation to verify that the cleaning company has done it's required obligations to verify that it's employees can legally work for them.
I remember being accused of lying when I told my story about having to work next to illegal immigrants at a small warehouse in California. "That's impossible! They can't even get paid! Plus labor laws!" Yeah. Labor laws don't know these people exist.
did those deniers never hear of being paid "under the table"? how sheltered were they? what were their own credentials to be worthy of trusting with the truth if they wdnt even believe you? sounds they need a new line of work if they aren't up to helping those who need it..
Keep telling your story to anyone who will listen...but be careful as these plants have had investigations into missing oersons. We all need to think about the fact that animals are tortured, people are put in harms way, and the pollution is causing sickness...and make the choice to not ear factory farmed meat
It's actually very common. Barrett in Bulls Gap TN has children working there. Anyone that lives in the town knows it , and know one says it. It's very sad.
In 1993, I started working at the age of 12. I had a work permit through my school. My older brothers both started at the age of 12 as well but we had limited hours we could work and couldn't work past a certain time. How did they manage to get away with this for as long as they have?
No a Denny's franchise actually lol. The owner prided himself on keeping a sign up that stated Family owned and operated. His family owned it and my family operated it. His family didn't even live in the same area as the restaurant.
I used to work at a nearby slaughterhouse. I felt bad for the guys working on the cleaning crew, crappy pay and many of them had visable growths on their eyes from the harsh chemicals. I asked why they didn't wear goggles? One of the men told me they were supposed to but because of the steam they couldn't see. Anyway, the turnover for those jobs was terrible, I hope that the company contracted to clean jbs in grand island wasn't exploiting children. There is security and maintenance crews on the graveyard shift too.
13 year olds should be in school. Meaning they should be at home asleep during the night hours. Teenagers require 8-10 hours of sleep a night. Add 8 hours of school to that. That's 17 hours out of twenty-four... So they have seven spare hours in their day. Which should not be used for working! Especially at a killing facility! Man, some of y'all need to work on gaining some empathy...
This is horrible. The children being wronged by these plants and the adult parties whether being a parent, grandparent, or otherwise. My son just turned 13 and you can definitely tell he is not an adult. Poor kids..
You don't have to be 18 to work in the US, you can be 14 per US department of labor, given a parent signs off. How outrageous is this if they said "some" were as young as 13. The rest are old enough if someone else signs a piece of paper.
@@wojtek-33 I don't care about the legality of it. The point is, if it's possible to legally work at 14 years old, then that's not a child. And finding other 14 year olds working without the proper docs don't make them children.
@@gheebuttersnaps2011 14 years old is still a child. Perverts convince themselves that children aren't children so they feel better about the abuse. Now I can add those who would work a child like an adult to that list. You go around treating other people's children like they're adults and see how that works for you.
@@AKing69 So I present you with information stating that a 14 year old can legally work in the US, and your response is to completely ignore that fact and continue calling them children, and continue your argument, based in a world where that fact doesn't exist at all.
And my kids think they have it bad when I ask them clean the kitchen or bathroom smh. I hope who ever is responsible for this gets what’s coming to them.
Those responsible must go to PRISON! We need to watch them and make sure the authorities prosecute, and remove the authorities from their positions if they don’t prosecute! Soooo angry! Accountability is a MUST! 😡
I was 13 when I started to work. You do what you gotta do to provide for the family. Seriously prison what is wrong with you, first off this video shows no evidence, shows no injuries, I didnt see one young man/ woman. Just a bunch of nonsense speculation and accusations.. didnt your mother or father ever tell you, "believe of nothing what you hear and only half of what you see".
I always wondered that happened to those kids stripped and separated from their parents at border years ago. Parents were deported without knowing where their kids were. NY times amd other outlets, including families reported a large # of children could not be located.
Incredible! Those making victims of children must be targeted for the maximum sentence! This is unexcusable! Children are easily pushed, or manipulated by conniving adults, if offering housing, food, clothing, or safety, if these are missing in the child's life, and we MUST be adamant in making it clear those victimizing children will be punished severely, if found guilty, and without mercy.
I bet the lot od them are mexican of native descent. Problem is america is still oprressing natives and wont let them move on their original lands, if mexicans are by blood a majority Native American they shouldnt require additional documents to live in america. ✌
Maybe you should stop children being trafficked over the southern border? How is the company supposed to know they were illegal immigrants and under 18 when they showed them fake ID's???
The GQP made it illegal to expose the behaviors inside slaughterhouses and industrial animal farming locations. It is considered “domestic terrorism.” Having done that, they opened the door to this evil.
Just to take it a step further, if the company cares so little for the workers, what do you think happens with the food they’re in charge of. Also do you really think the children are cleaning well? That entire plant has to go. Horrible and inhumane
🐃🐃🐂🐂🐖🐖🔪🔪🍖🍖All those chemicals have to go.somewhere ??? Oh yeah down the drain and into the rivers . Never buy property around slaughter houses the ground water is polluted unsafe to drink 💧💧🚫🚫🏡🏡
So I was talking to Mexican friend about segregation, he was 18 or 19 and I was early 30's. I was speaking about my parents experience with rezoning and the reactions of the students and walk outs and marches and protest. My friend told me something that blew my mind. He told me that his parents were cleaning the school, working as kids cleaning the schools while whites and black fought over integration. The Mexican kids wanted to simply attend school. I will never forget that as long as I live. These kids need to be Loved and in school playing sports and having fun, not working anybody night shift
ok 💡 let's make this make sense okay? where and who are the parents? we're the parents compromised or owed any debt? are the illegal? where are these children from? are their cameras looking out into areas can we get a license plate number etc.p
@@scarletdamsel3139100% illegal but trying to work so that the kids can at least be legal one day.. Not hard to figure out, same situation basically everytime.. The moral of the story was the white and black kids were arguing about their status as Americans, while the Mexican kids working a graveyard shift just wants to be an American in general..
Exactly, while we're busy buying meat from the store my Mexican neighbors are busy raising their own chickens, Nopales and vegetables and taking care of their grandma. And they ALWAYS bring us a pot of meat when they have a big party. I'm over my uptight white family growing a tomatoe for the novelty.
This is so despicable! The companies are full of 💩. Shut them all down, lock every single person responsible up, & throw away the key. Crimes against children boils my blood especially. 😡
Those kids have probably gone through worse things where they came from. Not saying what these companies did is right, because it's a dangerous job. I'm sure the scum bums knew that they were kids, but didn't care. If it was a job passing out flyers, than I would see nothing wrong with it, but the jobs these kids were doing are dangerous, even for grown men.
You really don't understand poor do you. So many kids work like this, I could walk to multiple companies right now with minors working all hours of the day. The lady means well, but this isn't what she thinks i bet.
They need to SHUT DOWN!!! This company completely until they get to the bottom of this. This is sickening that there haven't been any consequences, they get to just release a statement making them look good and no swift repercussions.
@@realitycheck1018 you'll be fine, with the obesity and diabetes epidemic, you can afford to eat other food groups for a couple weeks. Heard of rice, beans, veggies or seafood.
Why the us government told them to hire them and everything in your house from China Indonesia and places like Walmart all comes from child slave labor but you don't have a problem with that do you
@@itsalllies1955Maybe you! don't have a problem with it, speak for yourself, you have zero clue who I am. What are you doing for ch*ld labor around the world? Tell us, we'll wait
Teens get jobs in America. The kids were not trafficked put they put in applications and we're hired to clean. Probably making pretty decent money for teenage kids. There is nothing disgusting ear accept the way the American leftest news stations report .
This is why I'm against unvetted immigration because of stories like these. If they come to America and no one knows who they are it's like they don't exist and no one will ever know they need help.
heck if i was 13-14 and had a job, i wouldve been excited... just bc their working doesnt mean theyre used for trafficking.... for decades young boys worked to help families. this is nothing new... teaches them life skills, hard work. maybe theyll grow up even dedicated, hard working and own companies of their own ...
Check Yuma AZ news. Illegal Immigrants are destroying the lettuce fields. Expect Romain, Kale and red leaf lettuce lettuce to triple in price soon as human waste has led to much lettuce failing bacteria testings. This is from farms producing 90 percent of the lettuce to grocery stores in the U.S.
There needs to be very stiff penalties for employers who hire and take advantage of these illegal immigrants, including immigrant or trafficked children! State governments continually turn a blind eye.
I have a friend whose family has had a slaughterhouse in the MidWest for a long time. Here are some actual quotes from him. " The human body can take a lot of abuse-It's a miracle more people don't get sick" " We could scrape out the inside of the hoof and still call it Beef" " My inspector says 90% of the places he goes to have rats" (for the record , his place has no rats) When someone around him eats a piece of his sausage - " No floor scrapings were used in making this product" & of course he quotes Ackroyd in the Dragnet movie " are you aware of all of the things- including rodent hair and rat droppings- that can fall into an industrial sausage press?" He thinks he is a real riot at parties .
The parents failed them.why have kids if you can't take care of them. People have choices to have children. Blame the parents for bringing them to an unjust world
You don't just accidentally hire 50+ children to specifically work the graveyard shift where they're less noticeable
Also, those young people would be unable to be properly educated at day school.
Cross the southern border and they are put to work asap. Welcome to America.
Exactly. This is either trafficking or simply cheap labor efforts
@@williemo44 Sad reality we're forced to be living in but true non the less....... SMH 😔😑🤦🏻♂️😖😣🤬😤😠😡
Just an opinion here,
Have any of you given thought that maybe these children want to work? If they are immigrants, they don't know fluent English, might have little to no education, and there might not be any other jobs that would hire them. These kids might want to earn money to send back home or provide for the rest of their family. It might seem odd here in the US, but in other countries, kids have to start working at a very early age, such as 11-12 yrs. Kids in the South American countries aren't as privileged as we are in the US. I'm not stating that it's right or legal. It's just the sad and unfortunate real truth.
Just a thought.
This whole company needs to be investigated, there is absolutely no way they were unaware of what was going on and they have to face the consequences
The parents too...
Good job for reporting this
@@TheDogGoesWoof69for what?
@@jaeeluv they are victims of trafficking... Im not sure the parents are around
I wonder which political figures the company backs.
There is absolutely no way company management could not know that children were working in their plants. There should financial and criminal penalties. No more of this hiding behind a corporate structure to commit crimes.
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They knew
Agreed
Think of the data-mining done by “HR” at step one ??
Why kids can work I'm pretty sure just limits on hrs and if ya drop out of school you can work full time,what person didn't have a job at 13-15yr old,and they throw bs trafficking on it
I work at tyson and they would come clean our plant up until two weeks ago when we got a third shift and got rid of PSSI. I would always tell people “dude they look so young. That girl looks 12 or 13” and always felt off about it. I remember that girl always cleaned my line. She always looked sad and lost. Never showed emotion.
They are told not to make contact with you because they will get busted. They now they came to work because they are the only source of income for their families and they have to pay the smuggler that pass them here, they owe thousands and they have to pay or they will go after whomever is back home.
@@veronicam52 so sad very sad 😢
Wait are we going start cracking down on Hollywood from them having little kids work how is it a kid can go get a job acting in a movie as young as a few months old but my daughter can’t go get a job at the age of 12 on the weekend working at an ice cream shop ?
Tyson is responsible for heinous animals and human abuses. 💔
@@veronicam52 and some moron actually asked "how is it exploitation if this is what they wanted" in another thread. This right here is the answer
I’ve always said immigration problems are handled by blaming the immigrants but the enemy is the employers that hire them illegally without any government recourse. While there is demand there will be demand for people to work illegal in the US. Same with drugs while there is demand there will be supplies. It needs to handled by both sides of the problem. The company needs to be shut down and have stiff fines where it hurts the CEO and owners.
Good point. 👍
Agreed
Very well said!
They use real and fake ssns and the gvt allows them to use such numbers to file taxes. The fault lies on the gvt.
Exactly. If these companies didn't hire them in the first place they wouldn't try to cross over to make money here. But we all know that a lot of corporate companies want cheap labor, and high profits.
"rogue individuals who presented fake identification"
As if you couldn't tell by looking at them that they were not adults. The corruption runs deep.
The real reason we have open borders
@@aaronfogelsanger2550 yup so white people can use us as modern slaves since blacks don’t wanna do it no more
@@passi4453 exactly,
God bless America
I've met some immigrants who are in their 20s but are 5'4 and look like they are 13. If your hiring them in groups it might be easy for actual kids to sneak in
Well what do you think happens when you let people just float across the border
This is not acceptable, HR, Plant Manager, And CEO should all do 3 years in prison, no exceptions. Child Labor for profit should be a federal offense and come with Federal sentencing.
Would they have even known?
All labor is for profit.
3 year's in prison for EACH CHILD that worked there.
@@muddogs192 not really.. slavery isnt.. i heard America used to practise that.
Just 3 years??
Don't think for one moment that this is the the worst thing happening to these kids
How would you know?
@@ding9633 -Human trafficking, unfortunately, is all over the place. And they aren't even properly checking out who the unaccompanied minors are being released to anymore. Children & young people are extremely vulnerable & there are plenty of villans out there looking to prey upon them. Especially pedophiles. Perhaps you aren't aware.
@@brendaann727 I was not aware. Thanks for the info.
@@ding9633 please share
It probably was the best thing to happen to them until these nosy Karens got all up in their business. They were making money and staying under the radar but now they're out of work and getting deported back to the third world hellhole they tried to escape.
I think if CEO's started being charged for these crimes, it would happen a heck of a lot less.
Our government is complicit in it. In a lot of nasty business.
Well, this happened in Nebraska, a deep red state. This video explains why the GOP drags its feet on immigration but talks big on camera. You're looking at their donors in the video now.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 won't ever happen
Don’t count on it.
Rome never fell
Yeah, PSSI may be directly to blame, but let's not pretend that the company that hired them was unaware they had children cleaning their facilities. They need to be held accountable as well.
At all levels, all the managers who knew of this were responsible. They should be held accountable and more.
The U.S. gov't protects corporations at ALL costs now a days. Lengthy trial and then they'll be fined and go back to business as usual. Watch...🤬
This was initially reported SIX (6) years ago!!! Business as usual since then...☹️
13-15 year olds are teenagers, not children. If the media reported them as teenagers, y'all would be calling them teenagers. But they called them children, so y'all do too.
And the US dept of labor allows 14 year olds to work with parental consent. So I guess it's legal for "children" to work anyway.
@ghee buttersnaps not graveyard shifts, not these jobs. There's a reason we don't allow companies to hire them on certain shifts. They are under standard working age (16) but more importantly under 18 so yea still children.
@@gheebuttersnaps2011 bro is actually out here defending child trafficking… tragic. Keep licking the boot or stay in your lane and learn something
I find it VERY difficult to believe the corporations that own these slaughterhouses, like JBS and TYSON are not aware of these practices, since they are not new. It's their plants, their facilities, the night shift management team or the security team should have informed higher-ups about what is going on at the plants, and even if they didn't they have security cameras all over the plants. They have to go after the whole chain of command, not just after the weakest link.
Don't worry it all starts at the top.
They all used to use the same SSN years ago at this plant I was working at. You would know if the big people came through. Our supervisor used to let them hide out on the roof smh lol
They know what they are doing. I bet they are actively trafficking these children for labor.
They are all into the making of fake meat if you google it. So China…
This is a hush hush secret in the Mexican community. These children’s parents know they are working illegally, they put them up to it, someone inside the company (usually also. Hispanic) that’s in on it and allowing it to happen. They work for less and under the table. The company may not know as this is the work of a “coyote”.
I’m a trucker and I see a lot of this going on when I drive around the Midwest too. It’s sad.
Do you report it or are you part of the problem?
You can not tell me, the adults working there couldn't tell they were children. When they are that young. It's all about getting a job done at the cheapest cost. So the owners and other higher paid employees put a blind eye to it because it's all about that money. It's just Despicable!
To be fair, I've met 18 year olds that look 13 and 13 year olds that look 18, it's absolutely possible people thought they were 18 and they had fake identities.
A blind eye u say? You sound like u hire child labor and if not u still sounds like ur part of the issue nonetheless
FDA has lost most of its manpower thx to REPUGLICNTS/ Reagan… hence less accountability for hires like these. AMERICA!!!
Wait are we going start cracking down on Hollywood from them having little kids work how is it a kid can go get a job acting in a movie as young as a few months old but my daughter can’t go get a job at the age of 12 on the weekend working at an ice cream shop ?
"Despicable!" ...? Realistically, that's just how the capitalist system works today and has worked since the "labour theory of value" was discarded as too non-profitable by the bourgeoisie. That's not going to change any as the government (the branch of capitalism that makes all the laws) is controlled by oligarchs who own everything. Anything the 98% "own" has been bought on the installment plan and is simply debt. Even a dozen eggs has become "the new caviar" as the price skyrockets. And we elect a president who -- like the children working in the slaughterhouse -- is performing like he's in his second childhood. Go figure!
When I was growing up in the 90’s in East Texas… two of my friends in middle school worked graveyard shifts at the chicken plant. Their parents were undocumented and they all had to work in order to survive. I didn’t realize that was strange until I asked my parents if I could also get a job.
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Imagine now, with rents, inflation.
The sad part is that if you ask the immigrants, they will still say it’s better than where they came from. Companies know this and that’s how the workers get exploited.
@@magesalmanac6424
We need to legally throw them in prison. American doesn't need these illegals anymore. They need to face justice. America doesn't need to be victimized by illegals
Man dude I worked in Texas at 13 😂
I swear it gets harder and harder to tell if I’m living in 2020s or 1880s these days.
I know are we going backwards in years or time thi is sad are we like India slaving kids now
We all feeling like Oliver twist lately..
@@canskasapaemanon708 , more? You want some more???
So true unfortunately
It’s still quite the opposite.
The plant is using "sub contractors" to get plausable deniability, and having them on grave shirt work means USUALLY no govt. worker will suddenly drop by to inspect. Someone called.
Chances are, they cleaned during graveyard shift because the plant was closed for the night. Would it make sense to clean it while meat processing is going on and plant employees are working?
@@meatpopsicle1567 these plants and the feed line DON'T CLOSE.
Everyone goes home, they come in and start spraying everything down. No supervision no usda no one around to question anyone about anything
Put both out of business.
@@meatpopsicle1567 yes, I'm sure that's the reason
This is disgusting and horrible. The company 100% needs to be held criminally accountable and there needs to be a federal investigation that traces down everyone responsible for taking advantage of those children AS WELL AS any other humans being exploited!
Yes and they need to send me all their profit for the next 10.years
They will likely get slapped on the hand… no time served.
@@baanjones5910 na I doubt that
This is how you turn children, the next generation, into productive members of society and not have them become just as lazy and entitled as Millennials.😐👍
Who says they committed a crime? 16 and 17 year olds are allowed to work, and can still technically be called “children”.
There have been so many issues with slaughterhouses, and they keep getting away with it.
For example, that Smithfield plant by Crete, Nebraska often has people getting injured, but won't bother sending employees to an actual doctor, and if they go to an actual doctor, they deny knowing the person was injured. Absolutely sickening. Now this? These companies are the lowest of the low.
Go vegan. Put-‘em all out-a business!!
China bought Smithfield
Smithfield is owned by Chinese.
Probably the only people willing to do the job.
Economy is getting so rough
Let's all stop eating meat
Who knows how many of those kids were trafficked for this and who knows what else😢
Ol joe & hunter know!!
the manipulation of the young by those in power is not so uncommon. i sleep everyday crying
Jeffrey Epstein said once blame the rich and reinforcement’s or authorities
One of my best friends growing up in the elementary school was a Mexican kid who came and went like the wind. One day he was in my class at the beginning of the year and we became friends, he said his family worked in the fields and moved a lot and he looked sad, we used to always sit together at the lunch table and then one day he was just gone and never came back and it made me sad
True we travel from Texas in March to work in Idaho till November migrant season jobs none finish school we not from Mexico but that's what all family did travel for work 🤷
Yea, he was trying to put food on the table for his family. I can guarantee you most underage migrants want to work to help their families.
@@branayala2625 yeah but this aint their country where they start working in the coffee fields at 10
Not sorry but this is why they need to close the border because parents coming in with their kids clearly won't raise their kids right since they dumb enough to traffic they own kids and you got Americans who will unfortunately take advantage of their poverty and poor decision making of their parents.
Yup, they travel with the harvest
I highly doubt they took “rigorous steps” to comply with the law. I was a victim of fraud from this exact company. Someone stole my identity to work under this company. This is terrible thinking it might have been one of those kids using my identity 💔 Theres no way they didnt know they were children
Oh jeeeeze. Sorry. 😏
I worked at the usa government, all day long we death with people working under a borrowed social security card. You can have 4000 people working under my name alone
You need to turn this info into your local news and police. This is wrong. Don't let them get away with this corrupt B's!
There was a guy who used to hang around homeless shelters, soup kitchens, and warming centers in Detroit who would pay homeless people 10 dollars for their names and social security numbers. I wonder what that was about?
Wow..
How sickening! Management knew this was going on. This is going on all across this country. In Missouri over 800-900 foster kids came out missing, and no one is talking about it. Where are these kids? These people need to do jail time and throw the key away while you at it.
Crazy I live in MO and haven’t heard of it
@@nextlevelbjj3083 Same. I wouldn't be surprised if that was true.
Ignoring laws. And blaming the kids instead.
I had a job at age 13. That’s America 🇺🇸
@SonyaSpot, I couldn’t believe this, but here’s what a quick Google search taught me, "1,780 Foster Kids Went Missing in Missouri in Two-and-a-Half Years." 😱
@@heatherloughlin544 👀 yup, just looked it up as well.
Can't THANK YOU ENOUGH FOR PUBLISHING THIS IMPORTANT STORY!
This is beyond sick, every single person to have something to do with this needs to be held accountable. No questions ask, this is beyond disgusting..
Those kids were faking their age after being urged by family… you act like they were being forced to work by the employer. They literally wanted to work and lied their way in
Human trafficking is wrong, but teens wanting to work is nothing new and pretty common here in CA farms. Charge the employer. Also, they didn't say the race of the kids but it sounds like they're from latin america and just want to work
Not really if they were getting paid
Hey they want to come here for a better life🤷🏼♀️it’s the lesser of two evils no?
@@rambo4156 that’s exactly what pedophiles say, who are attracted to children they were faking their age they know exactly how old these children are
They need to pay! This is wrong and sad.
So you support human trafficking?
Not only that
Cage the top of them
No my friend this is America 🇺🇸
They,who ??.How and who provided these fake documents ?
Why can’t black people work like Mexican kids 🤦♂️
Charge each and every exec with 50 counts of child abuse. The "fines" they'll pay will be far less than what they saved exploiting these kids. Until there are real consequences for the people at the top this will never stop.
You mean "permanent washington"?
This happened in Nebraska. What political party do you think the owners support? Who do you think they donate to?
seize all of their assets and 10 years in prison...
The people at the top is president Biden who is literally bringing in illegals on a daily basis with his policies, lack of enforcement and refusal to complete the border wall.
@@aceboogisback9946 Naming a state has nothing to do with individuals. Troll harder please.
The first reports of a minor working overnight shifts was in 2016?!! It took 6+ YEARS to break this story and INVESTIGATE?!! Disgusting.
As a previous chicken plant sanitation worker there are some machine so intricate and mechanically advanced it's quite impressive to even hear that kids that age were cleaning machines. It's definitely not a place for kids but here's the biggest part USDA has to check behind the sanitation workers every week at random between two and four times a week. and as part of the requirements by USDA the person responsible for cleaning the machine must be present during it's presentation and sign off on any tags outs and be present for lock out tag out safety requirements. Which would mean that USDA workers were also turning a blind eye to these kids. Smh
Not surprising at all
Or they have an adult stand in to sign
Yes USDA is present thru out process of operations of the plants lead temporary worker for 3 years I cleaned chickens beside USDA
@@sarah69420 exactly
Thank you! There are so many layers that failed these kids
I'm just disgusted humans can be horrible
You and me both...
It’s all greed
LOL
They have no way of knowing since these kids get fake work permits,this will continue until the immigration laws are enforced.
3rd world country
May God help us. There is no way to get around the fact that there were people depraved enough to put children to work at night in a horror show slaughterhouse.
Hey, if they can choose to get genital mutilation they can choose to work.
Thats Right GOD Bless you. Raw MMLZZZ
those monsters are Trump voters, guaranteed
@@danstrayer111 Definitely Democrats. It's a "sanctuary slaughterhouse".
@@markleviner2540 PRAY Your Mockery Doesn't End Up Being The 🙀 That Got Your 😝
Companies that hire children and illegals need to be fined $50.000 for each violation and that fine doubles for every violation there after up to 10 violation after that you lose your business.
Worked for this company about 4 years ago for 2 years. needless to say, they follow as little amount of guidelines they can and would get away with murder if they could, employees including supervisors never wearing proper PPE, relatives getting promotions to the top just a short period after they get hired on... And they’ve been hiring children and illegals knowingly and not giving any care about it. I’ve never worked a job where I’ve seen discrimination as much as I have when I was at this one. Hopefully everyone at PSSI gets what’s coming to them and they either get shut down or reconstructed starting with higher ups and the HR department. Don’t let them lie about something they’ve been covering up for years, it’s time to pay the price!
Authorities would like to hear your stories, instead of posting it on youtube.
Bruh email the news this
Why didn't you say anything then? You're just as liable for turning a blind eye if you witnessed illegal activities and did nothing.
@@NiecieSavo and get sued i agree it they shouldve spoken out but the laws in our country favor these companies. Not everyone wants to be a hero even if they should. They should file a actual report now tho as many people are going to speak out. Safety in numbers
Dam it took you 4 years to say something
Wow, I used to work for this company about ten years ago. They had so many different chemicals, very hazardous health affecting chemicals that could have killed you. I remember using heavy duty alkaline cleaner and caustic powders that ate through my suit and clothes. Very little supervision and then pay was questionable. The upper management was making a lot of money. I know of one person that had a ranch where some of his employees would stay. None could speak English. I remember working 16 hour shifts for no overtime on my check . I'm surprised it took this long for them to finally get noticed..
So sad!
Same company for the location in Riverside
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Was wondering why my friend's ol' lady had siamese twins. It's all becoming clear to me now.
Yeah when you work in the sciences they cherry picking with having you both salary and hourly and none of the benefits of the both. I was a chemist. Things needs to change. They never had proper PPE working with hazardous materials. I left that job after 6 months. It made me question why I got my degree in bios chemistry :(
"Pay that price. Either financially or criminally"
Why should there be a choice?! The people of this country are disgusted by these violations commited against children. We don't want there to be a financial payoff, we want righteous judgement against these perpetrators!
I think criminally, don’t let these companies pay there way out of it. Next time you drive by a roofing company look who is doing the roofs. Mexicans are and I can bet if there are 10 Mexicans on the roof 5 are illegals.
God bless you! Please be a leader and help our country!
13-15 year olds aren't children, they're teenagers. They're only children because the media just told you they were. The US department of labor allows 14 and up to work with parental consent. NBC stated there were "some" as young as 13. So most were old enough to work if someone signs a form.
@@gheebuttersnaps2011 infants, toddlers, kids, pre-teens, teens are CHILDREN. They don't know crap about this world, still have to be told NO, YES, WHEN, WHERE, WHAT, WHY, HOW and WHO.
So shut up with that.
@@Mr.Taylor56 Ok, so teenagers are children, got it. So why are 18 year olds legally adults? Are you saying a 19 year old is a child? Or do you mean under 18? If so, are you a child until your 18th birthday? Should they change adults to 20? If that's the case, why is the drinking age 21? Shouldn't it be 20?
I started working in the fields at 10. Worked in them every summer all the way until I was 19. Still thankful for the experience and the money!
Ganja
@@BEASTMODE-fe5mg what ??
@@956.al3jandro XD
Someone must be held accountable. This can't be simply explained away.
Yeah the open borders, the traffickers, the few bad actors at the company who hired them. You see, 2 issues that could have been stopped before it got to the company.
Blame our "boarder czar" what do you think are going to be the real world consequences of having illegal immigrants pouring into our country?
Yeah Biden
wont be its probably the kids taken from parents at the boarder. You know the trump way separate them at the board, cage them then let them work for $1 a day
@@justinwahip I think that started way before during Obama
That’s no place for a child…. Even adults eventually need therapy after working in a slaughterhouse.
Probably preferable to being pimped out and drugged like lots of them are. It's just various disgusting things in this disgusting world.
What a silly comment. Why would you think that slaughterhouse workers need therapy? If you had ever met these workers you would know that this is not the case.
You had me at "that's no place for a child" and you lost me with "adults need therapy after working there"🤦
Go eat your beef chicken or pork
@@wolfmantroy6601 If they're sociopaths, maybe. A normal person would be traumatized, not desensitized by such hellish actions.
I worked for a month at a meat packing plant in Nebraska, mainly worked in the freezer area. I quit right away, I couldn’t handle the cold and the cold outside during winter. Just imagining kids working with chemicals and freezing temps is insane!
Then working again just a few days after giving birth..
Tuff kids
@Juan Escobedo yes this is true but kids shouldn't have to work for it until they are adults!
maybe you're just weak
@@rhino6139 its crazy cause these kids have no other option. Their parents cant eveb afford to come to usa much less get a legal job to maintain the kids
Ban slaughter house's ASAP
I worked in these plants for 7 years!! Very true, the whole industry is messed up!
You know that they knew they were children. Literally sickening
I had my own Janitorial service in high school and my own lawn mowing service. Parents can't take your car if you bought it yourself and pay insurance and taxes.
@@smolville if your not 18 yes they can bud!
Does it say they weren't u.s citizens? Because they weren't.. gives them no protections against these companies
@@melanieb2132 Yes it does. Children aren't allowed to work that young in the USA. Illegals aren't allowed to work in the USA.
@@danielquick8914 you can't be serious? This is parody, right?
I did a paper round when I was a kid but that was pretty different to doing overnight shifts at a slaughterhouse. Most businesses in my country require a full driving license for late night workers so they can drive home safely.
This sounds like a horrific situation. Hopefully these children are rescued and there's a bigger investigation to see if there are children working in other agricultural and meat processing jobs.
Same I'm 19 and I was a paper girl delivering newspapers and catalogues to part of my town when I was 13. I would typically start delivering from anywhere between 7-9am and finish between 10-12 that morning. I would deliver once a week. It wasn't super hard but I still quit after five months because the pay was super bad, $10 a week/day/session.
Not sure what the problem is -those immigrant children need to work if they want to live in the US. Fair trade in my eyes - God bless
@@hakimbandaru1915 👈 Special stupid
Well if the shift start from 9pm to 9am.. they wont need a driving license to drive home safely since they can arrive at the working site on public transport or cycle (if they live nearby), and then take the public transport home the next day morning... 12 hrs shifts with 2 one hour rest intervals every 5 hours isnt a big deal, not sure about US labor laws..
@@hakimbandaru1915 You sound like a GOP Congressional candidate
Charge them criminally and financially! This is absolutely disgusting
Charge who?
@@paullang1505 the companies that hired children illegally
@F Sanab , just so you understand, it wasn't the packing plant that did the hiring.
Bingo
@@paullang1505 Whoever was involved in the direct hiring of these children would be potentially liable for knowingly profiting from child labor/trafficking. It may not be the plant in particular but SOMEBODY committed a crime(s).
Jail time for those executives; they know what's going on in their businesses.
Good luck with that. American executives are always protected.
Sleazy people do anything to make money regardless of who suffers! Despicable!
And yet Mexicans are called lazy and criminals by republicans and here you see young Mexican children working long hours for almost no pay. You ain’t going to catch an American kid doing this 💩, or American adult for that matter.
It's the American way.
the federal government, Joe Biden and Mayorkas, are the prime villains here
@@JJ-jt4ji Ah yes, because other countries such as CHINA do no such thing!
It's 1 group of ethnic religious people that run that place...they have long beards an wear black
This is so horrible and sick and disgusting. Now im starting to wonder all those kids in cages that were unaccounted for or just released to anyone. I wonder how many of those children are now being forced to work like this. This needs a full government investigation until everyone involved is in jail.
WELL FORGET THE GOVERNMENT THEY ARE JUST AS CROOKED AS THE TRAFFICERS.
Wow chill. Do you now know how this works? It's called an open border, way too many illegals, catch and release policies, traffickers and smugglers. I'd know, my dad works for DHS. This administration is terrible.
These ppl allow it! they literally undercut americans as they work for pennies which makes corporations feel entitled to their bodies! There is a reason afro americans are hated globally ... its bc they stand against colonization, corporations, and exploitation as a collective!!!
@@citizencoy4393 This isnt making the point you think its making. "These people" are doing what they need to do to make a living and prosper. The enemy here is the corporations and the system that allows this to happen. Plain and simple. This is not a YOU vs THEM thing. This is a ALL OF US saying this isint right and forcing corporations to act right. PERIOD.
@@emmanuelventura4252 Excuse me if I dont feel pity for ppl that are putting Americans out of work left and right as they boast online about working harder than Americans when all they do is accept more bs then Americans. Corporations are the issue but so are they for being so desperate they dont care who they cross for a literal crumb.
Human trafficking has always been a horrible truth, but when you open up borders and let people in by the tens of thousands every month things like this will just continue to get worse.
The fact that there are really disgusting people out there that take advantage of any opportunity to make money. Is truly sad
If they were brought to court for doing this in 2016 and didn't suffer any serious consequences, then how are we to believe they hadn't ever stopped?
From what I heard from a teacher who worked the graveyard shift through grad school, the graveyard shift is absolutely crushing. Dead tired. And these are children who may or may not attend school during the day.
Ive read in other articles that at least some of these children that go to school, come with injuries or fall asleep in class and late all the time
I used to work 12 hour graveyard shifts part time while being a fulltime student and it was hard. Now I've gone back to working 8+ hour graveyard shifts and will be going back to grad school part time next month. My sleep schedule has been so messed up and I've been getting sick so much this past winter. I don't know how these kids have done it. Horrible.
People at the top in these companies know exactly what’s going on but play dumb when caught. Law enforcement needs to go after the top people in these companies for things to change
That would be the CEO, all of the management team at the work location, and the whole work crew who knew it was happening but did not speak up. The state government should be in trouble as well because clearly there is a severe lack of regulations in the industry.
Can pay ppl pennies if it's under the table.
They're insulated. The people that actually do it are far removed from graveyard shift operation. Shut the whole plant down so they feel the pain and take real action
@l r in a LEGAL setting and arrangement, sure. I worked at 13 but it was after school for 4 hours a day with state minimum wage, with safety and labor protections, and it was all above board and publicly visible.
Only a _monster_ would defend the exploitation of children being hidden from sight in a dangerous environment.
Lmao no its personal you doink
Adults working at slaughterhouses get PTSD--I can only imagine what it does to children.
This needs to be covered all over the media there's no possible way these companies were not aware of children working within these poor conditions! Exploitations at its finest !
IT WON'T BECAUE IT JUST MIGHT BE INVESTIGATED. OOPS!
Meh. I'd rather do that than public school these days.
Exploitation? In what way? Did the children want to work? Were they paid for their work? She makes human trafficking allegations and supplies no evidence for the assertion, using that to get on the news to try to raise awareness that company employed people below the legal working age on their cleaning crews.
Im not against child labor laws but in this situation I think it was probably beneficial for the children working there and for the families of the children working there. What were the conditions, temperature and humidity variations and working with chemicals. Chemicals tells us nothing because literally, everything is chemicals.
It's amazing how limited people in this country ability is to think critically and reach an independent conclusion based on the sum of the parts as opposed to adopting the conclusion being presented without observing the parts of the sum.
@@orionsimerl6539 Those kids were probably brought over here, because they wanted to come here. They probably didn't have money to pay, so they agreed to pay off their debt by working. They also provide people them with housing. I worked with someone a few months ago, that did that. He was living with other people in an apartment, which I'm sure they were doing what he was doing, working to pay off what they owe to the coyotes.
@@zombiesRUseless6880 While it's just.as likely that their family works at the factory and they also work at the factory, as it is they're working to pay off a coyote since she didn't supply even 1 statement of evidence supporting your claim, lets go with that narrative. As I understand the term a coyote is someone who brings people to the US from the southern border for a fee. You're saying that there are coyotes who offer to bring people over, house them, and find them a job to pay off the fee. In that situation people are living in impoverished circumstances and they have an opportunity to come to the United States and have food, work, income, and a place to stay but it may take them months to a year to pay back the coyote. Who in this situation is harmed and why should waste money pursuing charges against a company that has legal deniability of knowledge of child employment and that hasn't harmed anyone?
Shut that company down and compensate the children!
No, jail the people who knew the children were there. Every last one. Then send the children and everyone else who is illegal back to mexico.
Sadly enough, because they are immigrant children with no legal documentation, there is a high chance that the company will be able to evade any responsibility as those children provided fake identification. I know of someone where i worked before that was a minor.
I had to approach her carefully because i was able to quickly tell that there was no way she was above 18 (requirement to work at this establishment). Eventually after months of talking with her, she did tell me that she was only 14 and that her and her family had came here illegally.
These same children, are the ones that grow into adulthood, work 2 jobs, eventually have children, and push their children to become better than what they ever had.
Compensate them for working willingly? They come here on their own wanting work. Even a few of my husband’s cousins came here illegally and as minors. It happens all the time. They come on their own escaping their parents of whom most do not give them permission. They want the work and get fake ids and it’s not so easy to tell their ages. This woman may or may not be telling the truth. But she knows they came on their own accord.
That will never happen
The Government is making this happen
In their statement they say that they take extensive steps to verify their employees. So how did fifty or so children get past that?
There is no E-Verify
Lies
And biometrics
Never mind what the evidence says, we're innocent!
They bought IDs that were verified. So they passed when the company ran the ID.
No charges have been filed, OMG
Every person who orchestrated or allowed this to occur should be held criminally responsible. These kids deserve better. What a horrific practice... These kids go to school during the day and work in dangerous conditions overnight.. Sickening 😭
@bikmeemee4474I mean they are kids and shouldn't be force to work at night, they should be home sleeping getting ready for school and it's pretty illegal too😬😬
I bet you enjoy getting your meat from the grocery store as cheap as you can though!
@bikmeemee4474if you don't think these kids being forced to work deserves better your the problem 💀💀
They applied didn't they?
@bikmeemee4474the fact that they are children, and didn’t have a choice. The fact that you even said this makes me wonder if you were personally involved.
As a former high school teacher, I had students who had part time jobs. But these kids didn't work full-time overnight shifts. At most, they worked 3 hours per shift on four days of the week, with at least one weekend night, plus 2 or 3 other weekday shifts. State laws regarding child labor were in place and were strictly applied and followed, with all forms signed by parents, students, and employers. If grades started to drop, meetings with the students and parents were held with the teacher and counselor in attendance. They couldn't work if they weren't able to keep up their grades.
The practices and actions of the company cited in this vid are criminal. Shame on them and their greed. I hope they're investigated and held to account. These young kids need to go home after school and do their homework, and then go to bed at a reasonable hour so that they're able to go to school the next day and participate in their daytime classes. They need their education - not a rigorous and grueling work schedule.
My first job was working for an asian woman making cold calls for a newspaper subscription when i was 12 years old. I worked long hours and most of the time she shorted my paycheck. I took the job bc I had 4 friends from school that worked there. All of us LOVED the position bc it gave us access to money! even if we were being ripped off. We needed school clothes, school supplies, and lunch money. That lady gave us access that we otherwise would not have had. I look back angry but grateful at the same time bc our families needed the money. We were use to the exploitation.
I had 2 jobs at 16. 16 and 4 days was day one in the auto shop working 13 hours. That was 1976.
3:30-10:30 isn’t a few hours every day. I think you just don’t understand some of the situations your students are in.
@Nick Thompson Right. They're working full-time shifts. That's criminal on the employing company's part, and they definitely need to be investigated and slapped with fines for ignoring child labor laws.
I worked 36-40 hours a week in high school as a CNA. That was in 09 before they had laws making kids go home at 9. I am glad they passed those laws.
When I was 14 I got a workers permit, and I had a part-time job after school hours. I was not allowed to operate, heavy machinery, or work with chemicals. I was only allowed to work a limited amount of hours because I was a minor still in school. I do believe the company needs to be look into. Whether it be the child’s choice said if they needed a job or to help support their family or if they’re being forced to work for a parent or some other issue going on I do believe that it needs to be got looked into.
Why is nobody asking the children about how well or bad they are treated and compensated. Why is nobody asking the children if they wanted to be there or not?
Why is it suddenly so morally apprehensible to have children working?
When my mother was growing up a developing country 40 years ago, everybody as young as 12 was out in the society looking for jobs to support their family, and be the head of the family when the parents are gone. They begged for work, was constantly afraid people wouldn’t accept them because of their inexperience/age, so they work extra hard and begged to prove themselves. They’d do anything from picking frozen fishes, making shoes soles, to working on the farms.
To this day, I have never met a person in the states with as good of work ethic as my mother.
Today that country has one of the best economies in the world, built on the back/industriousness of people from her generation.
Today’s generation are coddled and rotten by the minutes. College is just another adult daycare and party hub.
@@hiyoryan3901 not all, but most children in the US are cared for in a way that they can just be kids and not have to worry about supporting a family at such young ages. There is no doubt children are capable of it (such as your mom) but I don't want my kids to have to worry about that stuff. That would be my job. Theirs is to go to school and be kids as long as they reasonably can. Also, maybe reconsider labeling an entire generation as "coddled" and "rotten", showing a bit of bias
@@3freak100 my mom did the same I was very sheltered, I went to work anyways at 15. By graduation I had $40,000 in cash, a lifted f250, a Camaro ss, 1971 chevelle, lifted Escalade etc. Being a kid is cool but being poor is not. $400 a week adds up when you’re a kid at home with no bills or bad habits.
Better working at night, then out on the street doing things to break the law
White girl defending the white business owners.
Makes you think twice about the meat they're putting out. If they have no regards for children, would they care about the meat you eat?
This is sickening. Too young to be working in an environment like that, first and foremost and then they are working the overnight shift, which is just so wrong....finally, their age.
I hope they this company gets the book thrown at them real hard.
Hugs for those kids. :(
When I was 12, I lied about my age to get a job. I was raised by a single mother who needed help. She never asked us too but my siblings and I did what we had to do to survive. I understand the kids who chose to work there and I don’t necessarily blame their parents because I’ve been there. However, if any child was forced to work then the company and parents should be charged.
Thank u .. families have bills to pay and food to get food stamps don't last long like ppl think..it's sad but this is the real 🌎 it's getting ruff by the day
How do you lie away the fact that you were a child.
You know, any US state allows and supports emancipation that gives you the legal right to work if economically hurting to do so. Illegal is illegal. You found an employer that did not report your existence or wages. If you used falsified documentation or stole someone’s identity, no matter how you slice it… that’s a felony you are admitting to.
Dude respect
@@cyberzenASMR Good luck charging a 12 year old with a felony for that lol.
Something tells me that the local police knew what was happening and turned a blind eye until they couldn't anymore.
The right people get paid off and that's the outcome
*federal government
100%.
Police, local government, parents and health department
Why would police know if it went unreported?
Everyone in charge should be held accountable and serve LONG prison sentences........ignorance is no excuse!!!
Mayorkas and Biden are NEVER going to jail
How about the fella that opened the border to let them in ? Oh I'm sorry he is immune Right It all starts at the top
@@noneya8217 Your comment makes no sense! Its really a poor excuse. What they did was AGAINST THE LAW, whether borders or opened or closed.
You probably believed that storming the capital was justified, because that MORONIC leader told you so.
Biden. With his open borders.
Start at the top, Biden!
Is this a new story or a old One? No matter what these people need to stop using these children any children.
All large corporate manufacturing and processing plants should be investigated for any possible, and likely, massive violations. The excuse is that there isn’t enough funds available for the task. So they get away with it over and over. How will they ever be held accountable if society doesn’t work together for change?
ok 💡 let's make this make sense okay? where and who are the parents? we're the parents compromised or owed any debt? are the illegal? where are these children from? are their cameras looking out into areas can we get a license plate number etc.
I think that the companies that they supply to need to be held accountable as well..
It wouldn't surprise me to find out gov't inspectors are on the payroll off the books.
@@scarletdamsel3139 I see you've posted this several times. Did you not hear that these children are suspected of victims of human trafficking? They haven't even been able to determine where or how the children were housed.
@@hed_sh0tz__638 These 5 plants ship meats to other companies in other states. It's unlikely those companies were aware of what was happening. However, if they were aware, of course they should face consequences. Unless the authorities can show this is a case of human trafficking, violating labor laws, even child labor laws, will result in fines only. If it is a case of human trafficking, it's likely the "middle men" will be the ones to go down -- NOT the higher ups who've been stuffing their bank accounts with the profits made on the backs of middle schoolers.
I am so angry about this. Someone in management all know about this. My heart just goes out to these kids and the parents who may not know where their children are. Follow the money.
I'm sure they were happy to be making money. 13 and 14 is not young children.
When your a parent your child will always be called your child. Anyway they should be in school.
That's why humans need to stop making more humans. The human race is beyond disgusting. No other animal hurts this planet as much as the vile human animal.
Hopefully vegans apply their will on humanity.
@@8646aarongetting paid crumbs bro. Wake up.. this ain’t mowing the lawn type of thing.. they’re doing a job that requires chemicals. You really think they wore the right PPE? This is cruelty. Don’t defend it.
There are AMERICAN children working all over this country and yes sometimes at nite. They often are never paid and start earlier then the age of 5. It's called agriculture. It's how you people get your food. Your welcome.
I've worked for PSSI for almost 10 years and have seen MANY things PSSI corporate office allows that are blatant violations of the law, and if you someone calls the corporate office to make a complaint they are fired the next day for something random.
Corporate office protects their own.
HR works for them
You need to go above
Department of labor is the start
Than a lawyer
Be a whistleblower and save people from greedy corporate..
Timothy Hutchins. If you would of drove someone to a Bank and you knew that he was going to rob it, you would of been charged as well.
With holding information of a criminal act(s) in itself is a crime, and since you have knowledge of a felony, and you said nothing to protect those children, you should be charged.
If one of these kids would of been been killed, or injured, the question is, knowing that you have knowledge, could you live with your self or was and is money more important?
I have to totally agree i currently work for them.
This is how slavery was able to exist for 400+ years. Yt men create laws for Yt men.
This is why open borders will never be solved when corporations get to vote with money in elections.
Slaughterhouses are notorious for mistreating and abusing employees. The conditions for the animals and the humans I these places are absolutely despicable. It is a perfect place to hide human trafficking or at the very least child labor. Another reason to shut down factory farms and slaughterhouses in country. This is not the right way to do things. This company should absolutely be held accountable and hopefully as a country we find a better way.
Used to work at one I agree
If A bar/Pub what ever you want to call it, serves a minor even if they have a fake I.D. The bar and owners are held responsible and could even loose their license. (This has happened in my county a couple times so I know what I'm talking about) So why should this place not be held accountable?
Third party contractor. The slaughterhouse and the cleaning company are separate entities. The slaughterhouse is under no obligation to verify that the cleaning company has done it's required obligations to verify that it's employees can legally work for them.
This is a very poor comparison lmao
@@nobodyspecial4702 nice loop hole if u ask me, does this qualify as "can't hate on the hustle " or " gotta chase the bag"
I remember being accused of lying when I told my story about having to work next to illegal immigrants at a small warehouse in California. "That's impossible! They can't even get paid! Plus labor laws!"
Yeah. Labor laws don't know these people exist.
Please talk to a journalist. Thank you for sharing this, Steven
@@erinh9267 It happens all over, they just get fake identities.
Sorry, Steven.
But sometimes life is hard, and harder when people think that they know what is best for you.
did those deniers never hear of being paid "under the table"? how sheltered were they? what were their own credentials to be worthy of trusting with the truth if they wdnt even believe you? sounds they need a new line of work if they aren't up to helping those who need it..
Keep telling your story to anyone who will listen...but be careful as these plants have had investigations into missing oersons. We all need to think about the fact that animals are tortured, people are put in harms way, and the pollution is causing sickness...and make the choice to not ear factory farmed meat
It's actually very common. Barrett in Bulls Gap TN has children working there. Anyone that lives in the town knows it , and know one says it. It's very sad.
report them to the department of labor then
In 1993, I started working at the age of 12. I had a work permit through my school. My older brothers both started at the age of 12 as well but we had limited hours we could work and couldn't work past a certain time. How did they manage to get away with this for as long as they have?
Did you work in a slaughterhouse?
No a Denny's franchise actually lol. The owner prided himself on keeping a sign up that stated Family owned and operated. His family owned it and my family operated it. His family didn't even live in the same area as the restaurant.
They don't have real documents so most of the time you don't know how old they are, I've known people in their 30s look like they are 12
It's called human trafficking. It's a syndicate.
Ok even with limited work hours in what state can 12 year olds work?
There's absolutely no way that there wasn't a syndicate of individuals working together to allow this!
I used to work at a nearby slaughterhouse. I felt bad for the guys working on the cleaning crew, crappy pay and many of them had visable growths on their eyes from the harsh chemicals. I asked why they didn't wear goggles? One of the men told me they were supposed to but because of the steam they couldn't see. Anyway, the turnover for those jobs was terrible, I hope that the company contracted to clean jbs in grand island wasn't exploiting children. There is security and maintenance crews on the graveyard shift too.
This should be ilegal in so many levels.
@@Celeste-bi4bf I agree but until there is an alternative solution it will continue to be this way. That was almost 30 years ago.
A lot of them are illegal immigrants
Omg.
OP
This is this company's 2nd offense. *2nd!* DUI drivers do jail time for 2nd offenses. These execs need to go to jail!!!!
As young as 13 yo. What a sad situation.
13 year olds can work just not in that situation
13 is old enough
If they were getting paid it's fine
Grow Up It's DA's like you who upset their routine
13 year olds should be in school. Meaning they should be at home asleep during the night hours. Teenagers require 8-10 hours of sleep a night. Add 8 hours of school to that. That's 17 hours out of twenty-four... So they have seven spare hours in their day.
Which should not be used for working! Especially at a killing facility!
Man, some of y'all need to work on gaining some empathy...
Anybody who has ever worked sanitation in a plant like this knows it's not a simple "cleaning crew." That is hard work using dangerous chemicals.
"It's brainless work that even a kid could do! You don't need a college degree to clean!"-- Karen PSSI Human Resources Manager
This is horrible. The children being wronged by these plants and the adult parties whether being a parent, grandparent, or otherwise. My son just turned 13 and you can definitely tell he is not an adult. Poor kids..
Diversity is our strength we HAVE to get more immigrants or we will die
You don't have to be 18 to work in the US, you can be 14 per US department of labor, given a parent signs off. How outrageous is this if they said "some" were as young as 13. The rest are old enough if someone else signs a piece of paper.
@@wojtek-33 I don't care about the legality of it. The point is, if it's possible to legally work at 14 years old, then that's not a child. And finding other 14 year olds working without the proper docs don't make them children.
@@gheebuttersnaps2011 14 years old is still a child. Perverts convince themselves that children aren't children so they feel better about the abuse. Now I can add those who would work a child like an adult to that list. You go around treating other people's children like they're adults and see how that works for you.
@@AKing69 So I present you with information stating that a 14 year old can legally work in the US, and your response is to completely ignore that fact and continue calling them children, and continue your argument, based in a world where that fact doesn't exist at all.
I guess you care about the children, but not about those getting slaughtered.
And my kids think they have it bad when I ask them clean the kitchen or bathroom smh. I hope who ever is responsible for this gets what’s coming to them.
Yes everyone is getting a raise.
Those responsible must go to PRISON! We need to watch them and make sure the authorities prosecute, and remove the authorities from their positions if they don’t prosecute! Soooo angry! Accountability is a MUST! 😡
Why because a child wants to start work and buile wealth at a young age??? Because the government doesn't want you to work untill you are over 30.
I was 13 when I started to work. You do what you gotta do to provide for the family. Seriously prison what is wrong with you, first off this video shows no evidence, shows no injuries, I didnt see one young man/ woman. Just a bunch of nonsense speculation and accusations.. didnt your mother or father ever tell you, "believe of nothing what you hear and only half of what you see".
Good luck with that. Last Year Tyson Foods Inc was caught doing the SAME thing and they are busier than ever in multiple states even.
Started working at 7 years old here!
They won't.
This is absolutely disgusting. How long did an investigation have to be?
I always wondered that happened to those kids stripped and separated from their parents at border years ago. Parents were deported without knowing where their kids were. NY times amd other outlets, including families reported a large # of children could not be located.
Cheesy manufacturing plant employees, modern day slaves and they probably don't know the extent of their slavery. Stranger in a strange land.
BINGO!
Remember the republican politician wanted the pretty ones before Biden got his hands on them.
No Border Control following strict guidelines.
Those children were sold
Incredible!
Those making victims of children must be targeted for the maximum sentence! This is unexcusable!
Children are easily pushed, or manipulated by conniving adults, if offering housing, food, clothing, or safety, if these are missing in the child's life, and we MUST be adamant in making it clear those victimizing children will be punished severely, if found guilty, and without mercy.
Naaa
I bet the lot od them are mexican of native descent. Problem is america is still oprressing natives and wont let them move on their original lands, if mexicans are by blood a majority Native American they shouldnt require additional documents to live in america. ✌
@@thatdude3977 no one is oppressing natives stop narrating
Maybe you should stop children being trafficked over the southern border? How is the company supposed to know they were illegal immigrants and under 18 when they showed them fake ID's???
I don't think iv ever seen someone indent a comment.
It's so correct, it makes me feel uncomfortable.
The GQP made it illegal to expose the behaviors inside slaughterhouses and industrial animal farming locations. It is considered “domestic terrorism.” Having done that, they opened the door to this evil.
Really and where can I find that information.
show me ,
Liar.
And Joe supplied the workers
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THIS is a terribly sad situation... WOW.
Just to take it a step further, if the company cares so little for the workers, what do you think happens with the food they’re in charge of. Also do you really think the children are cleaning well? That entire plant has to go. Horrible and inhumane
Yes I agree just mentioning all those chemicals must go on the meat 🥩
Hear, hear! I was just about to say that!
My exact thoughts😮😢
🐃🐃🐂🐂🐖🐖🔪🔪🍖🍖All those chemicals have to go.somewhere ??? Oh yeah down the drain and into the rivers . Never buy property around slaughter houses the ground water is polluted unsafe to drink
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Best comment here 💯
So I was talking to Mexican friend about segregation, he was 18 or 19 and I was early 30's. I was speaking about my parents experience with rezoning and the reactions of the students and walk outs and marches and protest. My friend told me something that blew my mind. He told me that his parents were cleaning the school, working as kids cleaning the schools while whites and black fought over integration. The Mexican kids wanted to simply attend school. I will never forget that as long as I live. These kids need to be Loved and in school playing sports and having fun, not working anybody night shift
What a story man.. makes you be thankful for you you do have. Although don’t let being thankful stop you from fighting for equal rights.
Lol. Exactly. Mexicans are fine with white opression
ok 💡 let's make this make sense okay? where and who are the parents? we're the parents compromised or owed any debt? are the illegal? where are these children from? are their cameras looking out into areas can we get a license plate number etc.p
@@scarletdamsel3139100% illegal but trying to work so that the kids can at least be legal one day.. Not hard to figure out, same situation basically everytime.. The moral of the story was the white and black kids were arguing about their status as Americans, while the Mexican kids working a graveyard shift just wants to be an American in general..
Exactly, while we're busy buying meat from the store my Mexican neighbors are busy raising their own chickens, Nopales and vegetables and taking care of their grandma. And they ALWAYS bring us a pot of meat when they have a big party. I'm over my uptight white family growing a tomatoe for the novelty.
This is so despicable! The companies are full of 💩. Shut them all down, lock every single person responsible up, & throw away the key. Crimes against children boils my blood especially. 😡
They needed jobs
Those kids have probably gone through worse things where they came from. Not saying what these companies did is right, because it's a dangerous job. I'm sure the scum bums knew that they were kids, but didn't care. If it was a job passing out flyers, than I would see nothing wrong with it, but the jobs these kids were doing are dangerous, even for grown men.
You really don't understand poor do you. So many kids work like this, I could walk to multiple companies right now with minors working all hours of the day. The lady means well, but this isn't what she thinks i bet.
@@Lilyso4895 children dont NEED jobs, they need to be in school getting an education!
@@0MissElizabeth0 lol right poor af sure
That’s depressing cleaning up a murder scene. I would be scarred
They need to SHUT DOWN!!! This company completely until they get to the bottom of this. This is sickening that there haven't been any consequences, they get to just release a statement making them look good and no swift repercussions.
Shut down another meat packing plant? How convenient for the agenda. Are you willing to pay even more for food?
Lol, shut down our food production...
@@realitycheck1018 you'll be fine, with the obesity and diabetes epidemic, you can afford to eat other food groups for a couple weeks. Heard of rice, beans, veggies or seafood.
Why the us government told them to hire them and everything in your house from China Indonesia and places like Walmart all comes from child slave labor but you don't have a problem with that do you
@@itsalllies1955Maybe you! don't have a problem with it, speak for yourself, you have zero clue who I am. What are you doing for ch*ld labor around the world? Tell us, we'll wait
if companies wouldn't hire children then nobody would bring them children...this is disgusting and heartbreaking.
Finally, NBC covers a legit topic. And yes, this story is not fake news.
My heart is so broken
Teens get jobs in America. The kids were not trafficked put they put in applications and we're hired to clean. Probably making pretty decent money for teenage kids. There is nothing disgusting ear accept the way the American leftest news stations report .
This is why I'm against unvetted immigration because of stories like these.
If they come to America and no one knows who they are it's like they don't exist and no one will ever know they need help.
Get a life
heck if i was 13-14 and had a job, i wouldve been excited...
just bc their working doesnt mean theyre used for trafficking.... for decades young boys worked to help families. this is nothing new... teaches them life skills, hard work. maybe theyll grow up even dedicated, hard working and own companies of their own ...
Imagine what goes on in the agriculture and crops!
Somehow that’s ok and overlooked isn’t it 😂
Crop production doesn't hold a candle to the horrific meat and dairy industries
Check Yuma AZ news. Illegal Immigrants are destroying the lettuce fields. Expect Romain, Kale and red leaf lettuce lettuce to triple in price soon as human waste has led to much lettuce failing bacteria testings. This is from farms producing 90 percent of the lettuce to grocery stores in the U.S.
They called them beaners when they picked food for people to eat
There needs to be very stiff penalties for employers who hire and take advantage of these illegal immigrants, including immigrant or trafficked children! State governments continually turn a blind eye.
This company should be shut down and whoever involve should be in jail. This is unacceptable.
Open border supporters in Washington is a good start.
I have a friend whose family has had a slaughterhouse in the MidWest for a long time. Here are some actual quotes from him.
" The human body can take a lot of abuse-It's a miracle more people don't get sick"
" We could scrape out the inside of the hoof and still call it Beef"
" My inspector says 90% of the places he goes to have rats" (for the record , his place has no rats)
When someone around him eats a piece of his sausage - " No floor scrapings were used in making this product"
& of course he quotes Ackroyd in the Dragnet movie " are you aware of all of the things- including rodent hair and rat droppings- that can fall into an industrial sausage press?"
He thinks he is a real riot at parties .
Wtf is this??
"We could scrape out the inside of the hoof and still call it beef"
...excuse me, what??
@@azca.yeah, exactly. Hm?
Omfg
What did this have to do with child labor at a slaughter house....
The parents failed them.why have kids if you can't take care of them. People have choices to have children. Blame the parents for bringing them to an unjust world
Before this story broke out just imagine how long this has going on
They said it went back to 2016
And how much MORE they are hiding.
Probably since1776.