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    USA TODAY‏Verified account @USATODAY 20 Jun 2017

    Reporters spent a year investigating the port trucking industry, the guys who haul containers for the Amazons and Targets of America.pic.twitter.com/LIiaNteOqu

    6:55 AM - 20 Jun 2017
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      1. New conversation
      2. USA TODAY‏Verified account @USATODAY 20 Jun 2017
        Replying to @USATODAY

        We found a fleet of indentured servants, thousands of them in California.http://rigged.usatoday.com 

        26 replies 923 retweets 679 likes
      3. USA TODAY‏Verified account @USATODAY 20 Jun 2017
        Replying to @USATODAY

        At least 60 companies use the same lease-to-own scheme to trap their workers into debt and sometimes forced labor.https://usat.ly/2rMkZ01 

        9 replies 603 retweets 463 likes
      4. USA TODAY‏Verified account @USATODAY 20 Jun 2017
        Replying to @USATODAY

        First they tricked poor, uneducated immigrants to pay $100,000 for brand-new trucks that they could never afford.pic.twitter.com/prqAwfM20N

        5 replies 331 retweets 288 likes
      5. USA TODAY‏Verified account @USATODAY 20 Jun 2017
        Replying to @USATODAY

        Then companies used the weekly debt and threats to force guys like Sam Talavera to work up to 20 hours a day behind the wheel.pic.twitter.com/BVRtT5ZkhA

        4 replies 290 retweets 288 likes
      6. USA TODAY‏Verified account @USATODAY 20 Jun 2017
        Replying to @USATODAY

        Some bosses actually locked their truckers out of the parking lot to make them work past exhaustion.pic.twitter.com/V6uqGpyL4E

        2 replies 242 retweets 222 likes
      7. USA TODAY‏Verified account @USATODAY 20 Jun 2017
        Replying to @USATODAY

        Drivers can take home pennies on the hour, or even owe their boss come Friday. Sam Talavera has a check for 67 cents for one week's work.pic.twitter.com/yy7qwYMO3r

        9 replies 469 retweets 354 likes
      8. USA TODAY‏Verified account @USATODAY 20 Jun 2017
        Replying to @USATODAY

        Like a lot of guys, Sam Talavera went bankrupt. Others got foreclosed on. They can't feed their families.

        1 reply 136 retweets 124 likes
      9. USA TODAY‏Verified account @USATODAY 20 Jun 2017
        Replying to @USATODAY

        They were promised a truck. But we found hundreds of drivers who were fired, sometimes just for getting sick or going to a funeral.pic.twitter.com/V74KASshiD

        5 replies 231 retweets 257 likes
      10. USA TODAY‏Verified account @USATODAY 20 Jun 2017
        Replying to @USATODAY

        When Sam Talavera got fired, his boss kept the truck and the $78,000 he had paid toward owning it.

        2 replies 167 retweets 171 likes
      11. USA TODAY‏Verified account @USATODAY 20 Jun 2017
        Replying to @USATODAY

        The experts we talked to came back to the same analogy again and again: sharecropping.http://rigged.usatoday.com 

        15 replies 368 retweets 392 likes
      12. USA TODAY‏Verified account @USATODAY 20 Jun 2017
        Replying to @USATODAY

        .@BrettMmurphy an investigative reporter with the USA TODAY Network is doing a @reddit_AMA on the story:https://usat.ly/2rSGHuy 

        4 replies 103 retweets 143 likes
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      2. Diane Russell  🌹‏Verified account @MissWrite 20 Jun 2017
        Replying to @USATODAY

        This is why the #Gorsuch nomination was so troubling. No understanding of the industry.

        1 reply 12 retweets 78 likes
      3. Willet Madder‏ @gtgx 20 Jun 2017
        Replying to @MissWrite @USATODAY

        Actually I'm more afraid he understands perfectly and is fine with it.

        0 replies 1 retweet 27 likes
      4. End of conversation
      1. New conversation
      2. bridget‏ @thebitchet 20 Jun 2017
        Replying to @USATODAY

        Next time there's a port strike in LGB people should remember this. It's spun as "overpaid" longshoremen who often strike in solidarity 1/2

        1 reply 4 retweets 30 likes
      3. bridget‏ @thebitchet 20 Jun 2017
        Replying to @thebitchet

        But those strikes are about the truckers and warehouse workers still prevented from unionizing

        0 replies 4 retweets 38 likes
      4. End of conversation
      1. New conversation
      2.  🌹YDSA of Boston College 🦅‏ @YDSA_BC 20 Jun 2017
        Replying to @USATODAY

        This is capitalism's true face.

        1 reply 4 retweets 35 likes
      3. Wasteland Replicant‏ @Tame_Grizzly 20 Jun 2017
        Replying to @YDSA_BC @USATODAY

        Theres adifference between capitalism (which has enabled you to own and tweet this from your smartphone/computer) and unethical businesses

        1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
      4.  🌹YDSA of Boston College 🦅‏ @YDSA_BC 21 Jun 2017
        Replying to @Tame_Grizzly @USATODAY

        They are one and the same. Capitalism is inherently exploitative and unethical and will inevitably lead to stories like the truckers.

        1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes
      5. Wasteland Replicant‏ @Tame_Grizzly 21 Jun 2017
        Replying to @YDSA_BC @USATODAY

        Did you ever consider that people can be shitty to other people and thats how shit like this happens and not a general mode of an economy...

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      6. Wasteland Replicant‏ @Tame_Grizzly 21 Jun 2017
        Replying to @Tame_Grizzly @USATODAY

        Instead youre being all like "ERROR LOGIC DETECTED, BLAME ALL CAPITALISM BLAME ALL CAPITALISM ERROR"

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      7.  🌹YDSA of Boston College 🦅‏ @YDSA_BC 21 Jun 2017
        Replying to @Tame_Grizzly @USATODAY

        Yes, there are bad people within the capitalism. BUT capitalism rewards bad people who pursue profit at all costs & punishes moral people

        0 replies 1 retweet 4 likes
      8. End of conversation

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