Alabama is forcing incarcerated people to work at hundreds of companies, including McDonald’s & Wendy’s. Unionizing is illegal. The state takes 40% of wages.

dazerl · 2 months ago

Alabama is forcing incarcerated people to work at hundreds of companies, including McDonald’s & Wendy’s. Unionizing is illegal. The state takes 40% of wages.

frostysauce · 2 months ago

Unionizing is NEVER illegal. Source: The thousands upon thousands of people that have died over the years for your right to organize.

grue · 2 months ago

And besides, what’re they gonna do, put them in prison?

chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 months ago

The video gets into this a bit; what the workers are threatened with for not working is stuff like being put in a more dangerous environment and not being able to see their families.

UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml · 2 months ago

Sounds cruel and unusual

ChickenLadyLovesLife · 2 months ago

Definitely cruel but not at all unusual. And as SCOTUS has determined, a punishment has to be both cruel and unusual to be unconstitutional.

frostysauce · 2 months ago

lol, right?

ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 months ago

Lol. For prisoners; you wanna bet?

Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 2 months ago

for prisoners? pretty sure they cant unionize, and they wont be able to.