McDonald’s and big supermarkets failed to spot slavery | BBC News
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- Опубликовано: 30 сен 2024
- Signs that modern slavery victims were being forced to work at a McDonald’s branch and a factory supplying bread products to major supermarkets were missed for years, the BBC has found.
A gang forced 16 victims to work at either the fast-food restaurant or the factory - both in the UK - which supplied Asda, Co-op, M&S, Sainsbury’s, Tesco and Waitrose.
Well-established signs of slavery, including paying the wages of four men into one bank account, were missed while the victims from the Czech Republic were exploited over more than four years.
McDonald’s UK said it had improved systems for spotting “potential risks”, while the British Retail Consortium said its members would learn from the case.
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That actually sounds like the managers at those McDonalds were in on it; no one should be working those kind of hours in a week.
Exactly. In on it of their own volition, *OR* coerced by and beholden to the Traffickers/OCGs in question. Were they even investigated for historic financial vulnerabilities, and/or various points of potential weakness suitable to coercion, control & exploitation!?
How were these people allowed to work over here? We need to stop employing foreigners.
@@FreudsSlipper I worked 90 hours a week at one time. Nothing to do with slavery.
I'm sorry, but they had no reason to believe they were hiring forced workers. Many people will work every hour they can get, and it's not unusual to have someone who can't speak English interview for a job
@@davecooper3238 I worked 75 and was way too much. Depends on the kind of job you do.
*they didn't fail to spot - they were indifferent to and implicitly incentivised it*
UK and USA are experts at slavery
How did they incentivize it?
When no one knows you exist what is anyone supposed to do ? that's precisely the issue Here that's why illegal migration is Illegal
@@Rusty84CV By turning a blind eye and keeping the people who were clearly working more than they should, and way more than it's legally allowed. At no point they wondered "is this ok? are they ok?". As long as they got cheap employees they were happy to pay without asking questions or looking into it further.
No they didn't fail to notice, they choose to ignore it instead
Choose to ignore!? Management was probably thinking these were their best workers as that's ideally where McDonalds would have most working and lower middle class people - making just enough to afford the value meals.
Fake news. Denied
@@Becarian789 totally agree, not to mention migrant workers usually willingly work long hours. If for example a Polak work 12 hours a day at the shipyard i'm working at I wouldn't notice anything, completely normal
This is why we need to enforce restrictions on working hours and make sure that the minimum wage is enough to live on. Not much to ask for. Plenty of money about.. in the wrong pockets.
"The rich get richer and the poor get poorer"
Why do we need to be tyrants?
Glad these poor guys are no longer in this horrific situation.
All companies now employ illegals. You wokes were warned that illegals and legal migrants were taking British jobs and driving down wages. Here is the proof the leftist wokes ignored and labelled anyone who dare highlight this issue a racist
Working at McDonald's is definitely terrible. Even moreso if you don't get paid for it.
They enjoy it
@@Tailssonic1999x Enjoy not being there you mean
@@ForumArcade I've never worked there. Unsure what its like, but working for the public can be a nightmare. Then imagine that with Long hours and poor pay
McDonald’s is scum, we’ve always known this. Avoid.
McDonald's is operated by a series of independent franchisees. Results may vary.
Rubbish, great service and training.
Baroness Theresa may.. When did that happen.. Apparently we just fail upwards in this country 🤷
She was given a place in the Lords by Rishi Sunak. She was actually the last honest PM we had. Think of what came after her.
McDonald's definitely views near-slavery as the norm so no surprise here.
McDonald’s don’t own most of the outlets. They are franchises.
McDonald's is a good company that's nothing to do with the company that's to do with the European union. If the people are supplying the house they are probably only taking rent. It can't be slavery you would still need to pay taxes on top of that and a permit to work.
@@davecooper3238 They still have to give a share of profits to McDonalds. They are still owned by them in some way of course.
@@JangoBlader So what ?
nope, not at all. In fact you can actually taste the slave labor in the burgers- You get what you pay for. lol
McDonalds were profiting from this. It’s ridiculous to suggest that the branches were completely unaware.
Was it a McDonald’s owed & run branch ?
@@davecooper3238 I don't know the answer to this, but as long as it has their name on it, they are getting something whether directly or indirectly.
@@CooperalAnd the brainwashed are getting their cheap burgers.
McDonald's are heavily to blame, but don't think consumers aren't.
This reminds me of how in Canada, Tim Horton's and Subway's exploitation of temporary foreign workers amounts to modern day slavery. Scams are allowed to happen when pension plans and private equity are invested in it.
Falied to spot or failed to admit? 😂
Its being taken lightly, inspections focus on H&S to tick the list.
Exactly. They saved some good money till they got busted
Definitely did a deal with them probs like £10 per hour 14 hours per day 😂😂😂
More like failed to admit
It's probably the second
A national Insurance number/ work permit and other documents is needed to work in any uk company..
100 hours and nobody noticed anything!?!
you think they are working under 1 name on the books?
@@user-im2te2fg9y If that's the case, don't you think the managers would notice that they were the same people?
@@theotheleo6830 its 1 24 hours job, with dozens of managers!
I went to a sushi restaurant in Canada where this was happening. The employees all came in one van. None knew a stitch of English and you ordered by number. The cooks slept on matresses behind the counter until they got an order. They worked very long hours. I should have reported them
you still can!!
You can report if now still!
They should investigate cruise lines for human rights violations and modern slavery, they abound there...
Yeah, it's called Caribbean business culture. That culture and Caribbean nations think it's their right to have white slavery if women on cruise ships. They even have their own private island that is protected by CIA and the Navy shipmen that are there on shore leave. They have seen the women slaves.
Nice video but those are only the one's that they found and I am sure that there are more in the same conditions at the Macdonald and many other companies.
Sorry for my English.
i agree, hopefully one day the issue can be fully tackled. its hard to even think about how many people are trapped.
i feel like companies could try using ai, it would be better than nothing.
Most McDonalds restaurants are operated by lessees who are responsible for employing the staff, not the company itself.
Hence the reference to the franchisee in the video
Gig economy!
This story doesn't make sense the company's can't be the problem and this is coming from the EU.
What do you mean gig economy? You're just saying words you've heard before arent you?
Bbc encourages this by promoting illegal immigration
Only way someone in U.K. can be enslaved is if that person can’t speak English… so you want to tell me, factory managers and McDonalds staff didn’t noticed that those people can’t speak the language? As imigrant in U.K. I saw wild stuff going on in London, and there is absolutely no chances that supervisors didn’t know anything.
Even with English fluency, you cannot possibly know for certain whether your Manager is in on it or not. So who do you report it to? When are you free to go out into the community to "run errands" and "slip into a police station" unseen by your Enslavers!?
I would expect the victims were not allowed out into the community after work, for food shopping or entertainment or anything.
They probably had a bag of basics thrown at them once a week from their kidnappers.
I don't understand how people are enslaved in the first place? If it's so obvious, how did they come to be there?
@@megansaunders7244Threat of violence, debt bondage, drug bondage, child exploitation, exploitation of those with learning difficulties, being born to a woman who is enslaved, and through early marriage are all some of the ways people become enslaved.
@@megansaunders7244 putting someone in debt is the easiest way. How do you think some of the people from the small boats will repay their smugglers?
they clearly could speak in their interviews. likely the managers were involved in the scam.
Nice to see people finally addressing slavery that’s happening now, instead of focusing solely on slavery that happened two centuries ago!
Exactly
The system didn't fail, it worked as they intended it to. Those victims were generating taxes for the crown as well as revenue for these scam artists, but they just overlook that part.
This is simply capitalism. Maximizing profits is the only motto. No company cares about worker's rights
to take one bad story and apply that to the whole capatalist system isn't logical.
@@Justin-yt8zv think about it. it's the government laws of socialist nature that prevent companies from trying extremities
Oligarchy with capitalism is the greatest threat to oppressed people like these workers
@@Justin-yt8zv it's not just one bad story, exploitation is inherent to this entire global capitalism system
@@Justin-yt8zv It's just story in amongst a plethora, a long tapestry of human misery. Open your eyes.
McDonald's may have not questioned multiple people working several extra shifts a week and sending their wages to a 3rd party, but if they skimmed 100 pounds a week, corporate would've been all over that franchise.
They did not fail to spot it. They chose to ignore it.
“Failed” by choice.
This is very weird....
Absolutely agonised that I’m forced to agree with Theresa May on something
Ronald McDonald need some glasses 😡
we are in hell at this point.
modern britain
There is no way those companies did not know, if not benefit from this! Every single one of those victims deserves a lifelong stipend from those companies.
sounds like the people running that mcdonalds were complicit and got away with it - there is no way the slavers sent 9 slaves to work in one location without that location being run in a particularly permissive way. if the employers had acted normally, that would have raised suspicions, so spreading the workers out over different companies would have made more sense.
Please, like they’re even looking
Was it a McDonald’s owed & run branch ?
boycott al theses companies
Yeah good luck mate, your're gunna find yourself unable to shop anywhere doing that.
McDonald’s already is with their ridiculous pricing, along with almost every other fast food places.
Now report on the slavery used by Apple, Google, Samsung, Dell, HP, Microsoft, Tesla, etc. There is too much human suffering caused by big corporations. Please expose all of it. Free Congo 🇨🇩
For obvious reasons there is no McDonald's in my town. 😂😂😂
I want my reparations from McDonald's 😂😂😂
Wait wait, the victims are still waiting for an APOLOGY???
My understanding is that red flags include: An immigrant needing help filling out a job application, and an immigrant being willing to work long hours. So my question is, why would this look unusual from the perspective of an employer? What should they have done? Called the police on their immigrant employees?
All the cheques going to one person who isn’t an employee is still a huge red flag
100hours a week of Mcdonald is just slavy, plain and simple
In UK law the "Working Time Directive" states employees should not work more than 48 hours per week. So if employees opt out, especially if it's in their contract, that needs to mean an employer accepts additional responsibility to ensure slavery is not occurring under threat of criminal prosecution. Perhaps then, coercion to opt out by an employer would be mitigated.
Maybe they are smuggling people in on boats to do this?
What you really mean is they didn’t pay taxes .
I'm surprised there's people being surprised that this would happen
Slavery is alive and well! Not only in Africa and the Middle East, but also in the heart of Europe!
Most modernised western countries !!
Because their education system produced easily manipulated morons.
@@pacnbeans Yeah, OK 👍😀
Crazy, how did McDonald didn't know this was happening?
It's not worst things that happening there. When you find out what they put inside burger, you not gonna wanna eat it anymore. And I am talking about toxic chemicals.
No surprise. Big companies are more than happy till caught imo.
same big companies are using legal slave labour in other parts of the world, you think mcdonalds aren;t operating in india etc?
Sadly a lot of stuff goes on behind doors of most companies, zero hours contracts, bad management etc.
How the hell did they miss????????? Is the employer not considered and accomplice???????the victims need not and apology but COMPENSATION!!!! I cannot even believe that the report fails to address this !!!!!!
if they really track modern slavery they would have to reform the UK construction industry.
The people should be encouraged to report slavery immediately
They is modern day slavery all around the world. Especially in the Muslim world. Let’s speak more about it.
British royal officials twisted our necks and treated us badly.
That law is really helping as intended.......................
Most of their customers even know they use slaves. What corporation doesn't?
So McD's has publicly announced it will fairly compensate these people who they profited from for years, right? Right? Hm.
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there are many more like this 'gangs', most of them are actually legal
9 in the SAME McDonalds, how on earth does that go undetected?
its nearly impossible to police such a thing, especially when the no one ever speaks out.
That 5% could have been the difference between a country being in a cost of living crisis or a quality of life improvement 😢
That is just SAD! Glad they were saved.
Subj: Planned slavery.
Good action! to find and make it public! .
There's still a harder heavier stone to turn, the recruiter at the slavery candidate home country, these guys have the worker family as economic hostages.
They only have to look around any shop they own and look at the wages they pay their employees to spot it.
I know a Bulgarian national that was collecting other people's benefits and was being paid into another person account.
I reported it, and the dwp did not do anything.
How do you know that the DWP aren’t following it up. Can take a while before they can gather evidence that will stand up in court. What you told them is hearsay.
Yeah mate "failed to spot" slavery.
how can you have a fkn interpreter in an interview
But that's what adds the flavour..
It's also known as minimum wage
Thank you for this upload. UK recognizes and address this issue. There are many advanced countries who don't even consider this as a problem!
USA and Canada are totally dependant on the financial enslavement of domestic minorities and temporary foreign workers.
Isn't this just the end goal of these companies?
cost cutters seek it out
This is appalling!
Usual suspects?
Meh, if I ran a McDonalds it would never occur to me to also do law enforcements job on top of my own.
Exactly! Thank you. These people are acting like they should have known everything happening behind their backs. Which means you’d be an all knowing individual. Which doesn’t exist.
@@madcircle0461 Don't reward each other for being people who would miss obvious red flags + shrug it off. Do you let your employees work 100 hours a week? They list several other red flags to look for so you + OC could be educating yourselves so you have a better chance of spotting it, but no --- you feel sorry + bad for THE BOSSES.
What does that say about you?
I thank you both for admitting that you are walking red flags.
So you would miss obvious red flags + shrug it off. Cool bro. Would you let your employees work 100 hours a week? That wouldn't bother you? The video lists several other red flags to look for so you could educate yourself so you have a better chance of spotting it, but no --- you feel sorry + bad for THE BOSSES.
What does that say about you?
You are a walking red flag & I hope no one near you needs help.
I used to work overtime quite a bit for money. How is that a sign of “slavery”? Should I snoop into employees lives? Also where does “feeling bad for the bosses “ come in? It’s not like they have broken any law.
no more saver menu?
I bet a lot of the Deliveroo guys are the same
they are working under someone elses name, theres a website where you can rent your account to people.
These institutions should be held accountable for facilitating modern slavery through negligence and lack of awareness.
How the hell did they miss????????? Is the employer not considered and accomplice???????
McDonald's profited massively and knowingly 😂
Come on, no red flags were missed. They knew what was happening.
Did HMRC not notice anything weird about the bank account and payslip?
must have the tory blinkers on
Mcdonalds have let standards slip across their franchised restaurants.
Exploitation must end, and to do that, capitalism must end!
What...? what? ¿Qué?
How did this happen? I am not understanding.
They failed to notice because they were looking away.
There needs to be inspections on hotels as well
Failed to spot ?
That headline's as blind as Harvey Weinstein's coworkers !
Why would these companies care, except for bad press by association....
Oh, is the news finally talking about employees?
May God bring righteous justice to these criminals and for God to save their victims 🙏
They simply don't care about slaves working in their factories and restaurants.
MCD was and is an evil corporation.
So that's why our young struggle to get jobs?!?
It's not failed to spot, it's willful ignorance.
4:44 So there are slaves in every town. Our own family town. Incredible.
All of the comments below know the truth. McDonald's knew what was happening!
People work 100 hours a week at McD's in Brittain?
If they'd make some money from it they would have eagle vision!!!
Good job bbc in making people aware of the modern slavery act
McDonald’s are discusting
The BBC really cant say anything about 'missing things' with all their dodgy staff