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Uline is privately held but is estimated to generate $8bn in revenues per year, and employs about 9,000 people.

“Billionaires fund the crackdown, then exploit the very people targeted by it –because they think money shields them from consequences,” Zamarripa wrote on a post of Facebook. “Wisconsin needs transparency, a real investigation, and accountability that applies to everyone.”

Uline declined to comment on Zamarripa’s remarks. The company has previously declined to comment on detailed questions about the shuttle program, which sources with knowledge of the matter said was abruptly halted in late 2024, when the Guardian first reported on the practice.

“Now we learn that workers in Pleasant Prairie say Mexican employees were pushed into dangerous, exhausting conditions and punished for speaking up – all while fueling Uline’s enormous wealth,” Zamarripa wrote.

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[–] MoonMelon@lemmy.ml 7 points 4 days ago

The catch there is word gets around and eventually migrant labor stops showing up at your farm. One of the reasons farmers are pushing so hard for relaxing oversight on H-2A visas is because having workers locked into your farm gets us a lot closer to Saudi style indentured servitude compared to having a "free market" migrant labor force. I'm not sure what visa Uline is using, but I bet those workers are trapped.