In an apparent satirical social media post, Cardy ‘welcomed’ Chinese EV maker BYD in Canada, accompanied by an article on BYD’s blacklist in Brazil over slave labour conditions at BYD’s largest plant outside China.
I noticed it years ago that libs often performatively whined about how bad First Nations/Native Americans had it in the past while also doing jackshit to help now or neglecting them even further.
And also South American natives whose land is being bulldozed by logging companies who are also shooting at them with guns at times get nothing.
They basically say that they will crush them now but ‘take comfort in knowing that decades from now they’ll feel a bit bad about it’.
Send some of that union money down south to help your brothers and sisters in Brazil. The unions should be more collective in their reasoning, they are not just for collecting dues and being “big business” locally (whatever that is).
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/byd-hungary-china-labour-watch-9.7154249
The report, first covered by the American public radio news program The World, describes potential violations of Hungarian labour and migration laws, including:
Seven-day workweeks with no days off to rest, with workers telling CLW they were instructed to lie to inspectors about their working hours if asked. Shifts of up to 12 or 14 hours, with only a short meal break and no paid overtime. Delayed wage payments of up to three months, with final payments withheld until workers returned to China. Steep recruitment fees used as a form of debt bondage, with low-income workers saying they were forced to stay despite poor conditions because they can’t afford to default on their contract. Workers entering on business visas instead of authorized work permits, leaving them vulnerable to abuse and unable to access services like health care for workplace injuries.
What’s that saying … Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me
cry harder