Farm workers in Brazil claim they were subjected to “slave-like” conditions while harvesting coffee for Starbucks, accusing the global beverage giant in a lawsuit of human trafficking, child slavery and forced labor.
The group International Rights Advocates filed the class action lawsuit Thursday in Washington DC Federal Court on behalf of eight of the workers.
Conditions were so bad and there was so little training on the dangerous machinery involved in coffee harvesting, at least two workers died from accidents and there were at least nine amputations, according to the group and the lawsuit.
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They spent grueling hours harvesting coffee from 5 a.m. to dusk and once went 40 days without being paid, they said in the lawsuit. None were registered as employees or given
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