Summary
Brazilian authorities discovered 163 Chinese workers allegedly living in “slavery-like conditions” at a BYD electric vehicle factory construction site in Camacari.
Prosecutors suspect human trafficking under contractor Jinjiang Group, citing poor living conditions such as mattress-less beds and inadequate cooking facilities.
BYD terminated its contract with the contractor but dismissed the allegations as a smear campaign against Chinese brands.
The workers have been moved to hotels, but their current whereabouts remain unclear as investigations continue. BYD’s factory is set to begin production next year.
Govts usually will require local management as a means of ‘promoting local business leafers’ - I’m sure there’s a local in the management structure making these calls. This person is not going to have a good day, I mean it’s pretty much fuck your own countrymen for the sake of the corporate higher ups in a different country.
Also, fuck corporate dispersal of reaponsibility. At all levels, it’s always ‘the decision was made by head office/ higher ups/ ‘the board’, I’m just the executor’, not the sole decision maker. The board of management needs to be made responsible for these shortcomings in accountability, as high up as is prosecutable by the law of the land. Make these turncoats think twice about selling out their country for a handful of shekels/ renmenbi.