According to the Economic Policy Institute, which is tracking the trend, 12 states have enacted laws in the last three years that roll back safety rules and regulations on hours and working conditions for workers under age 18. Arkansas allows employers to hire 14- and 15-year-olds without having to verify their ages or report their job conditions. Iowa permits children as young as 14 to work in industrial laundries and roofing and demolition jobs — occupations that federal law considers too hazardous for anyone younger than 18. Florida is among several states allowing 16- and 17-year-olds to work between 11 p.m. and 6:30 a.m. and for more than eight hours — even when they have school the next day. #ChildLabor#Labor#LaborLaws#Children#SaveTheChildren
—Mary Ellen Klas at Bloomberg
#HannahDreier got a #Pulitzer for her MYT article revealing how child labor laws are being flouted in, among other states, Alabama.
In textile factories, meat plants & roofing companies, immigrant children work in clear violation of the law, & few folks seem that concerned, especially at the #Alabama Attorney General’s office.
[The Washington Post]: Company fined $650K for hiring children to clean meatpacking plants
A judge approved a consent order finding that Fayette Janitorial Service LLC sent teens to clean razor-edged machinery with dangerous chemicals. By María Luisa Paúl
Sister of St. Vincent de Paul receiving a little visitor at the Jeanne d'Arc Dispensary, 95 Rue Gambette, Malakoff. The American Red Cross gave money to build this dispensary and the work with the people is done by the Sisters
CA poultry processors hand over >$1M in profits. DOL: firm attempted to obstruct investigation. A CA-based poultry processing co must pay $4.8M in back wages & damages to nearly 500 workers +$1M in profits from illegal #childlabor.
We have a horrific #childlabor problem. Violations have⬆️>250% since 2017. Children have died in shocking circumstances: unjamming a blocked sawmill in WI, sucked into a poultry machine in MS... -result of an intentional starving of labor LE.
MO bill would loosen child labor law by removing work permit reqs.
LA's lawmakers are trying repeal a law requiring employers to provide a 20-minute meal break to any minor who works >5 hrs...
3:30 P.M. Picking nuts in dirty basement. The dirtiest imaginable children were pawing over the nuts, eating lunch on the table, etc. Mother had a cold, blew her nose frequently (without washing hands) and the dirty handkerchief reposed comfortably on the table and close to the nuts and nut meats. The father picks now. "No work to do at any business." (Has a cobbler's shop in the room.) They said the children didn't pick near. (Probably a temporary respite.) See 2685. Location: New York, New York (State).
Dangerous work. Charlie McBride. Said twelve years old. This twelve year old boy has a steady job with the Miller & Vidor Lumber Company. He takes slabs out of a chute which has a moving endless chain to carry the wood up the chute. He passes the slabs onto the other boy who saws them on an unguarded circular saw. Charlie runs the saw himself whenever he gets the chance. He is exposed not only to the above danger, but to the weather - no roof even. Has been here for some months. "Get four bits a day." Fifty cents. Works ten hours. This was the only mill that I found around Beaumont that employed boys, likely because they are located some distance out of town. Location: Beaumont, Texas.
Home work on tags. Home of Martin Gibbons, 268 ? Centre Street, Roxbury Mass. James 11, years old; Helen 9 years and Mary 6, work on tags. Helen said she could tie the most (5,000 a day at 30 cents). Mary does some but can do only 1000 a day. They work nights a good deal. The night before Helen and James worked until 11:00 P.M. See also Home Work report. Location: Roxbury, Massachusetts.
Family of Mrs. Donovan, 293 1/2 Highland Street, Roxbury, Mass., tying tags for Dennison Co. This is the family that has worked on tags for 7 years and makes an average from that work $30 a month. One month they made $42. Mrs. D. said: "Will we ever be able to do it again?" All the children aged 13, 9, 11, 7 and the twins 4 1/2 years, help the mother. They often have to work late at night to get done. See Home Work report. Location: Roxbury, Massachusetts.
🗣️ IF YOU WERE LAID OFF RECENTLY, PLEASE GO CLAIM YOUR UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS
do y'all know why these fascistas are trying to bring back #childLabor? to force families to indenture their children if they want any kind of social services; IF THEY OFFER ANY AT ALL.
Carmela Picciano, 311 E. 149th St., 3rd floor rear. 12 years old. Making Irish lace for collars. Works until 9 P.M. sometimes. Dirty kitchen. Location: New York, New York (State)