“It is hard to imagine that a rich country like the United States would attack children’s rights.”

On the occasion of World Day Against Child Labor on June 12, we’re republishing this February interview with Reed Mackey, coordinator of the Child Labor Coalition, about child labor in the United States, as several countries strive to make child labor easier in the United States. the palace.

13-year-olds working at night in slaughterhouses, cleaning meat slicers with chemicals … This is happening in the United States and it is the Department of Labor that is sounding the alarm. Checks revealed that at least 102 minors between the ages of 13 and 17 were employed by the cleaning and food hygiene company, Packers Sanitation Services, at thirteen slaughterhouses in eight different states. It took three of these young men seriously injured while working for this company for the state to put their nose in