Saturday, October 19, 2024

Corporate welfare

Tim Walz awards $126K in taxpayer funds to meatpacker JBS that had kids cleaning processing plant

It’s a meaty issue. 

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz greenlit up to $126,000 in taxpayer-funded job training grants to the notorious international meat processing empire JBS — despite the global juggernaut being mired in a slew of high-profile scandals. 

In February 2023, the US Department of Labor found at least 22 children had been unlawfully hired by a cleaning company to scrub JBS’ processing plant in Worthington, Minn., where they worked in hazardous conditions and during graveyard shifts. 

JBS later fired the cleaning service. 

Large white building of JBS pork plant in Worthington, Minnesota.
The US Department of Labor found a cleaning company tapped to scrub down JBS’ Minnesota plant illegally used child labor.

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