The Daily Populous Saturday April 27th, 2024 evening edition
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cobracommander00 on April 27th, 2024 at 01:42 UTC »

Fuck this place.

I live nearby. It was built by slave labor and human trafficking.

Simultaneously with the FBI's raid on the temple, a sensational lawsuit was lodged in a New Jersey federal court. The suit accused the BAPS Robbinsville leadership of enticing workers from India and making them work close to 90 hours weekly, compensating them at approximately $1.20 per hour.

DylanHate on April 27th, 2024 at 03:28 UTC »

This article said workers were flown in on missionary visas, confined to small trailers, and were forced to work 90 hour weeks for around $450/mo.

Construction on two locations was halted after DOL investigation confirmed workers were paid cash and the company has no workers compensation insurance.

> The lawsuit said the men’s passports had been confiscated, and they were confined to the fenced-in and guarded site, where they were forbidden from talking to visitors and religious volunteers. They subsisted on a bland diet of lentils and potatoes, and their pay was docked for minor violations, such as being seen without a helmet, according to the claim.

Source - NYT, 2021

I don’t understand how these people don’t go to prison for human trafficking.

Naive_Insurance on April 27th, 2024 at 06:01 UTC »

It gets worse. A 15-year-old volunteer from Pennsylvania lost their life in 2017 while helping to build this. I had friends who went to school with him and was told they lacked proper safety equipment. It’s a shame; if he were still alive, he would have graduated college about now.