dazerl@lemmy.world to Work Reform@lemmy.world · 5 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-square124linkfedilinkarrow-up11.05Karrow-down111
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 · 5 days agomessage-square124linkfedilink
minus-squarebagsy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up83arrow-down1·4 days agoSlavery is illegal except for prisoners. Forcing prisoners to work is perfectly constitutional. The bill of rights is wrong and must be admended. Closing this loop hole will kill the for profit prison industrial complex.
minus-squareLemmyBruceLeeMarvin@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up35·4 days agoThe only thing Capitalists love more than wage theft is slavery
minus-squareEtterralinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·4 days agoIt’s been that way since the end of the civil war.
minus-squareNotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·4 days agoIt won’t kill the for profit prisons, this is just an aspect of how for profit prisons make profit. They should ban for profit prisons outright.
minus-squareFlames5123@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 days agoBtw, the bill of rights is only the first 10 amendments. The 13th is just an amendment.
minus-squareMeron35@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·4 days agoMore like bill of wrongs amirite
Slavery is illegal except for prisoners. Forcing prisoners to work is perfectly constitutional.
The bill of rights is wrong and must be admended. Closing this loop hole will kill the for profit prison industrial complex.
The only thing Capitalists love more than wage theft is slavery
It’s been that way since the end of the civil war.
It won’t kill the for profit prisons, this is just an aspect of how for profit prisons make profit.
They should ban for profit prisons outright.
Btw, the bill of rights is only the first 10 amendments. The 13th is just an amendment.
More like bill of wrongs amirite