{"id":11811,"date":"2023-10-10T09:37:33","date_gmt":"2023-10-10T07:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/10\/revealed-amazon-linked-to-trafficking-of-workers-in-saudi-arabia\/"},"modified":"2023-10-10T09:37:33","modified_gmt":"2023-10-10T07:37:33","slug":"revealed-amazon-linked-to-trafficking-of-workers-in-saudi-arabia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/10\/revealed-amazon-linked-to-trafficking-of-workers-in-saudi-arabia\/","title":{"rendered":"Revealed: Amazon linked to trafficking of workers in Saudi Arabia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dozens of contract workers at Amazon warehouses say they were tricked into toiling and living in grueling, squalid conditions<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/composer.gutools.co.uk\/content\/652409228f08297bb3424f84\">McDonald\u2019s and Amazon\u2019s ties to alleged labor trafficking: five key takeaways<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/composer.gutools.co.uk\/content\/65203d8d8f08584119dd160c\">Corporations are paying for worker abuse audits that are \u2018designed to fail\u2019, say insiders<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/composer.gutools.co.uk\/content\/651f48ce8f08297bb34228ec\">McDonald\u2019s and Chuck E Cheese tied to alleged foreign worker exploitation<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Momtaj Mansur wanted to go home to his mom and his brother and the pastures of Nepal\u2019s southern plains. He felt like a prisoner, he says, in a roach-infested bunkhouse in Saudi Arabia, out of work, hungry and deep in debt.<\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old had come to Riyadh, the Saudi capital, in 2021 to work for one of the world\u2019s biggest companies: Amazon.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2023\/oct\/10\/amazon-trafficking-links-claims-saudi-arabia-workers-abuses\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/29bddad04b755766664e04af55f624402569f712\/517_985_4864_2919\/master\/4864.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=5ebd88baa1d7fcb4587600cb98e37e9f\" title=\"Revealed: Amazon linked to trafficking of workers in Saudi Arabia\" \/>Dozens of contract workers at Amazon warehouses say they were tricked into toiling and living in grueling, squalid conditions<\/p>\n<p>McDonald\u2019s and Amazon\u2019s ties to alleged labor trafficking: five key takeaways<br \/>\nCorporations are paying for worker abuse audits that are \u2018designed to fail\u2019, say insiders<br \/>\nMcDonald\u2019s and Chuck E Cheese tied to alleged foreign worker exploitation<\/p>\n<p>Momtaj Mansur wanted to go home to his mom and his brother and the pastures of Nepal\u2019s southern plains. He felt like a prisoner, he says, in a roach-infested bunkhouse in Saudi Arabia, out of work, hungry and deep in debt.<br \/>\nThe 23-year-old had come to Riyadh, the Saudi capital, in 2021 to work for one of the world\u2019s biggest companies: Amazon. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dozens of contract workers at Amazon warehouses say they were tricked into toiling and living in grueling, squalid conditions McDonald\u2019s and Amazon\u2019s ties to alleged labor trafficking: five key takeaways Corporations are paying for worker abuse audits that are \u2018designed to fail\u2019, say insiders McDonald\u2019s and Chuck E Cheese tied to alleged foreign worker exploitation &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/10\/revealed-amazon-linked-to-trafficking-of-workers-in-saudi-arabia\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Revealed: Amazon linked to trafficking of workers in Saudi Arabia<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":11812,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11811"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}