A six-month Borderless investigation shows that forced labor, brutal beatings and threats of violence are regularly carried out against workers by labor recruiters, or “brokers,” contracted by Aye’s employer, Thailand-based Vita Foods.
The factory is directly linked to the U.S. market, and has shipped millions of pounds of its products to U.S. distributors nationwide over the last several years, with Del Monte Corporation regularly taking shipments from Vita since 2006, Borderless found.