Depressing to see someone actively tooting about #gaza respond to one of my posts and denying #Uyghur#forcedlabor. Not the first time I've seen or experienced this.
Though, notably, I've yet to meet an actual #Palestinian who does this. It's nearly always western leftists.
@Alon@adnan Definitely, remember the tariffs against Japanese automakers in the 1980s?
But for all the issues US, #Japan, #Europe, etc, face w/ trade b/t each other, #China is completely different. At the very least, I'd appreciate if those criticizing #Biden's tariff would at least recognize that.
Also lessons have been learned - American solar is growing. Europe, which failed to protect against cheap Chinese #solar imports/dumping (or #forcedlabor) saw its solar industry decimated.
Today in Labor History March 30, 1930: Three thousand workers, mostly African-American, began construction on the Hawks Nest Tunnel in West Virginia. The employer cut costs by failing to provide safety equipment. Additionally, bosses forced the men to work 10-15-hour days, often at gunpoint, without breaks and without masks to protect themselves from the silicon dust. Consequently, hundreds of workers died of silicosis. Possibly over 1,000 people, one-third of the entire workforce, died from silicosis, in one of America’s worst cases of mass workplace mortality.
BANK OF AMERICA IS BACKING DESTRUCTION OF THE RAINFOREST
The #Amazon rainforest is at a critical tipping point — and the world's largest butcher, #JBS, is pushing the world's largest rainforest over the edge, and setting up a global #catastrophe.
In fact, right now, JBS is being sued for lying to consumers about their #EnvironmentalImpact, #ClimateGoals, and their pseudo-plan to achieve net zero carbon #emissions by 2040 —
The majority #shareholders of JBS even pled guilty to foreign #bribery charges in the U.S. in 2020. And this summer, it was the subject of a Senate hearing on Amazon deforestation, in which Senators discussed JBS' practice of — get this — cattle #laundering, or concealing a cow's origin to cover up its connections to #deforestation and #RightsAbuses.
Please read and consider signing this petition by Prof. Reinhard Zöllner (Univ. of Bonn) to help raise awareness of the removal of the memorial for Korean forced laborers in Gunma, Japan.
For further information, visit the website of Korean English-language daily The Hankyoreh, which published an editorial and a report about this issue.
Today in Labor History December 28, 1943: Soviet authorities began Operation Ulussy, the deportation of the Kalmyk nation to Siberia and Central Asia. They forcibly relocated over 93,000 people of Kalmyk nationality in cattle wagons on December 28–31 to forced labor camps. The government accused them all of collaborating with the Nazis based on the roughly 5,000 Kalmyks who fought in the Nazi-affiliated Kalmykian Cavalry Corps. However, over 23,000 Kalmyks served in the Red Army and fought against Axis forces at the same time. The deportation resulted in more than 16,000 deaths. Overall, the Soviet government deported millions of ethnic minorities from the 1930s-‘50s, and hundreds of thousands died in the process. In 1956, Khrushchev rehabilitated The Kalmyks. In 1989 the Supreme Council of the Soviet Union declared all of Stalin's deportations "illegal and criminal."
The astonishing story of immigrants lured to the United States from India and trapped in forced labor—told by the visionary labor leader who engineered their escape and set them on a path to citizenship.
yesterday, i took ownership of the "workers' rights" magazine on kbin.social > you can find it here: kbin.social/m/workersrights
since i consider workers' rights to be of international importance, i try to get away from an english-only, anglocentric perspective > attempting to counter english dominance on the fediverse, i added the hashtag "hartal" ("strike" in many south asian and southeast asian languages), aiming at a better discoverability of non-english posts at least on this specific subject
if you send me the term for "strike" in a language other than english, i will add the term as a hashtag to the kbin magazine mentioned above > contributions from the global south are especially welcome!
US #law barring parts & products from the #Xinjiang region poses a challenge for #Tesla & other #auto companies
Tesla boasts that its #ElectricVehicles are a marvel not just of innovation but also #ethics, pledging in annual reports that it will “not knowingly accept products or services from suppliers that include forced labour or #HumanTrafficking in any form.”
The #carmaker touts its teams of monitors that travel to #mining operations around the world, & has pledged to mount a camera at an African mine to prevent the use of #underage or #SlaveLabor.
But #Tesla has been conspicuously silent when it comes to #China, despite evidence that materials that go into its vehicles come from the #Xinjiang region, where #ForcedLabor has been rampant.