Workers from the startup that James David Vance helped fund “were routinely taken out of the greenhouse by medical personnel because they were suffering from heat stroke symptoms.
Those who went to the doctor, she said, were told by managers that a doctor’s note was not a sufficient reason to miss a shift.”
https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/13/politics/kentucky-startup-appharvest-jd-vance/index.html
"As workers left, AppHarvest replaced them with migrant workers, numerous former employees told CNN. By the early fall of 2021, Hester described a workforce that was made up of many workers from countries such as Mexico and Guatemala."
Ahead of a visit by Mitch McConnell, former workers told CNN "they sent every single Hispanic worker home before he got there. He then proceeded to have a speech about how we were taking the jobs from the Mexicans.”
"Supporting other worker accounts, Hester’s husband, Mitch Smith, who also worked at AppHarvest, told CNN that the migrants were kept in separate bays from other workers and were sent away when bigwigs came through the warehouse."
@tusk81 WOAH!!! JD's into slavery? Who'd have guessed?