dazerl@lemmy.world to Work Reform@lemmy.world · 3 days agoAlabama is forcing incarcerated people to work at hundreds of companies, including McDonald’s & Wendy’s. Unionizing is illegal. The state takes 40% of wages.cdn.imgchest.comvideomessage-square125linkfedilinkarrow-up11.05Karrow-down19
arrow-up11.04Karrow-down1videoAlabama is forcing incarcerated people to work at hundreds of companies, including McDonald’s & Wendy’s. Unionizing is illegal. The state takes 40% of wages.cdn.imgchest.comdazerl@lemmy.world to Work Reform@lemmy.world · 3 days agomessage-square125linkfedilink
minus-squareLaurel Raven@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up149·3 days agoIt isn’t, this is how they get around it, and literally wrote into the amendment banning slavery to leave a carve out for prisoners
minus-squareWest_of_West@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up87·3 days agoCould also explain why prisons are such a big industry in the US
minus-squareTollana1234567@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up4·2 days agoalso to put them in perpetually low wage jobs, where they cant complain, much like they do with Immigrants. and to live them socioeconomically disadvantaged for generations with no way to lift them out of.
minus-squareTollana1234567@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 days agoit is slavery with extra steps, and to say its “not like slavery”
And how is that different from slavery?
It isn’t, this is how they get around it, and literally wrote into the amendment banning slavery to leave a carve out for prisoners
Could also explain why prisons are such a big industry in the US
All of our 401ks invest in it.
also to put them in perpetually low wage jobs, where they cant complain, much like they do with Immigrants. and to live them socioeconomically disadvantaged for generations with no way to lift them out of.
They get a whole 3/5 of their wages!
I see what you did there
it is slavery with extra steps, and to say its “not like slavery”