exploitation

  • Boeing in ‘fresh trouble’ – factory workers admit there’s ‘pressure to work too fast’

    Boeing factory workers say they were pressured to work too fast and asked to perform jobs that they weren’t qualified for, including opening and closing the door plug that later blew off an Alaska Airlines jet. Those accounts from inside the company were disclosed Tuesday, as federal investigators opened a two-day hearing into the blowout,…

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  • Cracking down on forced labor allegations in China, the Biden administration on Wednesday banned the imports of a key solar panel chemicals from China-based Hoshine Silicon Industry. Separately, the U.S. Commerce Department restricted exports to Hoshine, three other Chinese companies and the paramilitary Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, charging them with using forced labor supplied…

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