Posted on 05/31/2022 3:32:01 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Volkswagen has been summoned before a labor court in Brazil on June 14 and faces accusations of using “slavery-like practices” and “human trafficking” in the country between 1974 and 1986.
The automaker was notified by the judiciary in Brasilia, Brazil, on May 19, reports Germany’s Sueddeutsche Zeitung. The German giant said it is taking these accusations very seriously.
“We can assure you that we take the possible events at Fazenda Rio Cristalino, to which the investigation by the Brazilian investigating authorities refers, very seriously,” Volkswagen told Reuters. “Please understand that we are not commenting further due to possible legal proceedings in Brazil.”
Volkswagen is accused of having been complicit in “systematic human rights violations,” during a period of Brazilian history in which the country was run by a military dictatorship. According to documents made up of testimonies and police reports consulted by the German outlet, the automaker was working on a large agricultural site on the edge of the Amazon basin for the meat trade.
Hundreds of day laborers were recruited for deforestation on 70,000 hectares (173,000 acres) of land via intermediaries but, the outlets report, likely with the consent of VW‘s management.
The site’s workers were allegedly the victims of abuse and violence, which was carried out by armed guards and others. There are also claims that workers who tried to flee were mistreated or disappeared under mysterious circumstances.
One woman claimed that her child died as a result of violent abuse, according to Agence France Presse. Another was reportedly sexually assaulted as punishment. Others, meanwhile, were allegedly subject to inhumane working conditions on the site with some dying of malaria and being buried on-site without having their families informed.
“It was a form of modern slavery,” Rafael Garcia, the prosecutor in charge of the investigation told media. “VW had obviously not only accepted this form of slavery but also encouraged it, as it was cheap labor.”
Former VW employees have been seeking compensation for years and, in 2020, the automaker signed a deal with federal prosecutors in Brazil to pay 36 million reais ($6.4 million USD at the time) in compensation for its part in the military dictatorship and its role in identifying leftist opponents and union leaders, who were then detained and tortured.
This is awful.
Think that someday the current slavery of Sub-Saharan Africans and near slavery of Phillipinos in north Africa and the Middle East might be addressed?
Much like dozens of woke corporations using Chinese slave labor today..................but this is different (sarc)
It was the engineers they hired,
“I vill show you zat ziss is NOT rocket science!”
Stop looking back at past wrongs. Make today and the future better for all.
Wrong...
Justice should never rest.
WITHC HUNTS are what you probably mean. (I hope)
But if we let people get away with stuff (like stealing an election) they will certainly do it again (it worked so well last time)
In before the Hitler pic.
What about the consent of the military dictatorship?
“But if we let people get away with stuff (like stealing an election) they will certainly do it again (it worked so well last time)”
Well the steel worked out well (for the demòlitions) but the actual dick they installed is a retarded perv.
You would think if they went to all that trouble in stealing the election they would want to install somebody with a thinking brain. But no°00oOoO.... the libs f***** it up again
That’s a generation ago and not still happening. I.e. I don’t care.
Interesting history though.
. The mantra I live by is learn from the past live in the present and prepare for the future.
The manta I live by is, get rich through slavery. Galumph! Snofest! Huzzpick!
I Know, right!
I bet they are scratching their a$$es saying to themselves “we exposed ourselves for THIS CLOWN...???”
Mr. Hilter from the flat upstairs?
Ironic that VW has a plant in Xinjiang, you know, the same area where the Chinese have hundreds of thousands of Uighurs and other minorities are being detained in camps...........
Johnson: What’s happening Thursday then?
Landlady: Well it’s the North Minehead bye-election. Mr Hilter’s standing as
the National Bocialist. He’s got wonderful plans for Minehead!
Johnson: Like what?
Landlady: Well, for a start he wants to annex Poland.
Yeah, what are they thinking? It’s not like convicting a murderer will bring back the victim. C’mon, man, at this point what difference does it make?
You are a tool.
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