British Petroleum is using prison labor in Louisiana to clean up from its massive oil spill. Something like 20,000 convicts are being forced to work for BP, 12 hours a day, six days a week.
BP is engaging in this level of fuckery because inmates can't complain very much, inmate labor is cheap, and BP gets some big-ass tax credit or writeoff for using modern-day slave labor for the cleanup. Meanwhile, BP is running commercial after commercial in which some rat-faced good ole boy is promising that "we'll make this right (with slave labor"."
Just when you'd think that BP has plumbed the depths of corporate evil, they surprise everyone by drilling even lower into the depths of iniquity.
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Smarter than
1 day ago
I guess we should file this under "of fucking course."
ReplyDeleteWhew!!! I thought for a moment it was going to be Walmart workers.
ReplyDeleteI suspect this may have caused the tiniest of twinges of regret in BP execs. Let me explain:
ReplyDeleteSure, they're abusing and poisoning 20,000... but in the eyes of conservatives, those people DESERVE it! This puts BP in the accidental position of allowing some people to think BP is doing a tiny bit of good in the world. Shit!