27-09-2023 12:02 via theguardian.com

A meat processer killed a 16-year-old. Yet US lawmakers want more child labor | Akin Olla

Adult workers are demanding a fairer slice of corporate profits – so child labor is a way to increase and undercut the labor poolThis July the body of 16-year-old Duvan Tomas Perez “became entangled” in meat processing machinery in Mississippi, according to a statement from Mar-Jac Poultry, the company where the boy was working. Perez was too young to be working there, according to Mar-Jac, which blamed an outside staffing company for failing to verify Perez’s age and ide
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