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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: Sriram on May 12, 2016, 10:07:59 AM
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Hi everyone,
When I saw the title I thought it was in China or Korea. No....its in America!
https://news.vice.com/article/chicken-industry-workers-wear-diapers-because-bosses-allow-no-breaks-ngo-says
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The pressure to keep up with the line speed is so great that supervisors routinely deny workers' requests to go to the bathroom, according to a new Oxfam America report, titled No Relief: Denial of Bathroom Breaks in the Poultry Industry.
To avoid the embarrassment of becoming so desperate that they urinate or defecate on the floor, many workers say that they've grown accustomed to wearing diapers while at work. "I had to wear Pampers," one worker told Oxfam. "I, and many, many others had to wear Pampers."
Different plants and departments have varying rules when it comes to bathroom breaks, but the overall consensus among poultry workers surveyed seems to be that leaving the production line to use the restroom is a privilege, not a right. If a worker need to go, someone has to replace them on the line until they come back. Workers say finding a replacement can take up to an hour. Sometimes, they say, a replacement never arrives.One worker at Pilgrim's plant in Alabama, told Oxfam that the only time he and his hundreds of colleagues were allowed to use the bathroom was during their 30 minute lunch break. In that time, he had to undress from his work gear, eat lunch, line up to use the bathroom and then get back into work gear.
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Cheers.
Sriram
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Hi everyone,
When I saw the title I thought it was in China or Korea. No....its in America!
https://news.vice.com/article/chicken-industry-workers-wear-diapers-because-bosses-allow-no-breaks-ngo-says
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The pressure to keep up with the line speed is so great that supervisors routinely deny workers' requests to go to the bathroom, according to a new Oxfam America report, titled No Relief: Denial of Bathroom Breaks in the Poultry Industry.
To avoid the embarrassment of becoming so desperate that they urinate or defecate on the floor, many workers say that they've grown accustomed to wearing diapers while at work. "I had to wear Pampers," one worker told Oxfam. "I, and many, many others had to wear Pampers."
Different plants and departments have varying rules when it comes to bathroom breaks, but the overall consensus among poultry workers surveyed seems to be that leaving the production line to use the restroom is a privilege, not a right. If a worker need to go, someone has to replace them on the line until they come back. Workers say finding a replacement can take up to an hour. Sometimes, they say, a replacement never arrives.One worker at Pilgrim's plant in Alabama, told Oxfam that the only time he and his hundreds of colleagues were allowed to use the bathroom was during their 30 minute lunch break. In that time, he had to undress from his work gear, eat lunch, line up to use the bathroom and then get back into work gear.
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Cheers.
Sriram
Sounds terrible to me Sriram, they would never get away with that here in the U K, the company should employ robots if they want to dispence with toilet breaks, do the people that run the place use the loo?
ippy
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Employment law in the States compared to here is just abysmal.
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Hi everyone,
When I saw the title I thought it was in China or Korea. No....its in America!
https://news.vice.com/article/chicken-industry-workers-wear-diapers-because-bosses-allow-no-breaks-ngo-says
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The pressure to keep up with the line speed is so great that supervisors routinely deny workers' requests to go to the bathroom, according to a new Oxfam America report, titled No Relief: Denial of Bathroom Breaks in the Poultry Industry.
To avoid the embarrassment of becoming so desperate that they urinate or defecate on the floor, many workers say that they've grown accustomed to wearing diapers while at work. "I had to wear Pampers," one worker told Oxfam. "I, and many, many others had to wear Pampers."
Different plants and departments have varying rules when it comes to bathroom breaks, but the overall consensus among poultry workers surveyed seems to be that leaving the production line to use the restroom is a privilege, not a right. If a worker need to go, someone has to replace them on the line until they come back. Workers say finding a replacement can take up to an hour. Sometimes, they say, a replacement never arrives.One worker at Pilgrim's plant in Alabama, told Oxfam that the only time he and his hundreds of colleagues were allowed to use the bathroom was during their 30 minute lunch break. In that time, he had to undress from his work gear, eat lunch, line up to use the bathroom and then get back into work gear.
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Cheers.
Sriram
At least they actually have a bathroom to go to!!!
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I wonder if it is a true story. Doesn't sound like one to me.
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I wonder if it is a true story. Doesn't sound like one to me.
I have been to the site from which the item was extracted. There is a statement which might be the site's mission statement:
VICE News is an international news organization created by and for a connected generation. We provide an unvarnished look at some of the most important events of our time, highlight under-reported stories from around the globe, and get to the heart of the matter with reporters who call it like they see it.
The site is "in Beta" which suggests that it may be a recent start up. I could find no hint that the story may be untrue.
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Omg!
Just when you think work couldn't get any worse ....