• Mee@reddthat.com
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    Reporting Highlights

    • Unsanitary Conditions: Workers at one of the nation’s largest baby formula plants say the Abbott Laboratories facility is engaging in unsanitary practices.
    • Cardboard Funnel: In one case, workers said an employee used a piece of cardboard from a trash bin to funnel coconut oil, a formula ingredient, into a tank during production.
    • Federal Response: One worker complained to the FDA, but it’s unclear how the agency will respond. The Trump administration recently cut 3,500 jobs at the FDA in a mass layoff.
    • Verdant Banana@lemmy.world
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      what motivation do the workers have to do the job right

      not getting paid enough to afford to work

      not the workers fault people ain’t paid right and not given access to services like healthcare and the like

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        People aren’t monsters or lazy - people generally just chug along. Obviously, stress, living conditions, and morale affect performance, but that’s not the real problem

        People do what they can when they’re given. And nearly across the board, what are they given? Fewer workers to produce ever more, faster, with cheaper tools and supplies. And they ramp up the pressure, encourage turnover, refuse to listen to the actual workers on the ground, and just generally don’t give workers what they need to properly and reliably do the job

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    when people are paid less than what housing, food, healthcare, entertainment, vehicle expenses, etcetera costs hardly shit is going to get done let alone correctly

    moral is not getting higher and staffing an entire business with children will not solve the problems