If a worker dies $7,000 is the max fine but violation of S Pacific Tuna Act is $350,000

[Shallah Kali]

Child Labor vs. Tuna Fish
http://prospect.org/csnc/blogs/tapped_archive?month=03&year=2011&base_name=child_labor_vs_tuna_fish

TRIANGLE'S ECHOES: The Unfinished Struggle for Worker Protection, Safety and Health http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xN8cjH5qfRk
A violation of the South Pacific Tuna Act … can be a $350,000 fine. If a dairy refuses to contribute to the fund that all dairies put into to promote milk and dairy products, the Agriculture Department can fine them $150,000. But if a worker dies, $7,000 is the maximum citation.

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There are between 400,000 and 500,000 children out there working in the fields. Under current U.S. law, children as young as 12 years old are allowed to work in agriculture with unlimited hours as long as it’s outside of school.

Some of the kids apparently use machetes and chainsaws. Here. In the United States. Think about that next time you take a bite of lettuce.

The film doesn’t say so, but it seems like if you put two and two together, then one workplace safety fine involving the death of one of these kids working in agriculture might literally amount to less than the fine for violating the Tuna Act.

[baldguy]

1. The tuna has better representation in Congress.

[Ozymanithrax]

2. Dead humans can not be made into Sushi...

and sold by the pound.

All you allowed to do is cremate or burry them.

Now, if they could by made into Soylent Green.

[rpannier]

3. You've heard of turkey ham?

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