On Thursday, the progressive pro-worker nonprofit Jobs to Move America filed a lawsuit against Hyundai and Kia in a California state court. The suit revolves around allegations of child labor and prison labor in the companies’ supply chains, claiming that the companies violated California law by falsely certifying their products had not been made “produced in whole or in part” with sweatshop labor.

“Hyundai and Kia—two of the world’s largest automakers—market themselves as socially and ethically responsible corporations, yet they oversee and control a network of auto parts suppliers in the United States that has engaged in severe labor exploitation, including child, forced, and prison labor, in plants with deadly working conditions resulting in widespread violations of health and safety s

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