Work paused at Hyundai's US site after hundreds of workers detained in raid
Work paused at Hyundai's US site after hundreds of workers detained in raid
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The battery factory is part of Hyundai's $12.6 billion investments in the state …., in what would be "the largest economic development project in the state’s history."
“Would have been”, LoL
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Soooo much winning everywhere.
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The Greatness... it staggers the mind!
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I worked construction in US (illegally). It's not hard work. Boring but not hard. It's not like agriculture where Americans show up and resign after one day. We had couple of Americans hired with us for legal reason and the main issue was that they sucked. They would finish some union training course and know some basic bricklaying for example but were unable to solve any issues when needed. They were like simple robots: able to follow simple instructions but unable to improvise. The guys from Eastern Europe and South America were used to figuring things out on the spot.
It's different where it comes to more specialized professions like electricians or plumbers. I saw Americans doing this independently. When it comes to entry level jobs they sucked.
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Yeah can confirm Eastern Europeans are fantastic construction workers, they basically build everything in Western Europe along with a smaller proportion of Southern Americans.
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Construction workers (mostly immigrants) work super hard, and it's not easy work. People destroy their bodies after working construction for several years. It's literally called "hard labor."
If you found it easy, that's cool. But it's pretty absurd to suggest that's always the case.
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The hardest thing I did was demolishing and old building. A lot of dust and rusty nails. I was careful and lucky enough no to hurt myself but some people did cut themselves or stepped on a nail. It took us couple of weeks to demolish the entire building. After that the construction itself was easy. It's just 2x4 and pneumatic nail guns. When we were bricklaying I would have to carry the bricks for 1-2h a day. The rest of the day was filled with easier tasks. There was a forklift on site to move heavy things, concrete was pumped. There was nothing backbreaking. I worked at union sites and private projects. The days were long but it wasn't that hard.
What's your experience? What types of projects did you work on? What did you find the most difficult?
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Don't worry, the (actual) children will be back to work there soon. Hyundai/Kias subsidiary companies/suppliers have a history of using child labor in the US.
Since I am getting downvoted for some reason, here is a source. Their Alabama plants got dinged a couple of times. Department of Labor
That'll teach companies not to ever risk opening factories in the US....
That's the idea.
Or thoroughly do the paperwork during the hiring process.
No, I think it goes a bit deeper than that.
Now, the Administration knows that they can raid just about any new construction and find people without work authorization. They targeted this particular one because it is in Georgia and Georgia didn't "find enough votes" for Trump in 2020. But it will backfire, bigly, because not only will tourism continue to drop but international businesses with a presence in the US will stop sending their people here in business, for any reason. The Administration just added the costs of getting foreign nationals out of ICE detention to the cost of doing business in the US.
I m not seeing it.
I mean in both cases we have plenty of existing cases to be skeptical
However even with these assumptions, how is this an arrestable offense? I’d expect levying fines against the corporation. All it takes is one lawyer. These are not criminals
The illegal part is how capitalism works, bud. It’s not the paperwork preventing slavery & poverty wages; it’s the exploitive system.
Yeah that's the reason this happened. They just didn't check applicants close enough 🙄