Word: cambodians
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...Crimson made the front page of the Boston Globe this summer when the paper hired two dozen Cambodian workers to typeset the 19th century issues of The Crimson. The workers were paid roughly 40 cents an hour, in U.S. dollars...
...hiring was at odds, some argued, with The Crimson’s endorsement this past spring of Harvard’s living wage campaign’s platform of a wage floor of $10.25 per hour for all Harvard employees. The Crimson typesetting was expected to employ 20 Cambodian typisis working two six-hour shifts a day on 10 computers for six months. The typists earn $50 a month, better than the $45 minimum wage paid in the garment sector, Cambodia’s biggest industry...
...thousands of kilometers east of Babi near the southern tip of the Philippines. Like Palembang, Sangir is renowned in the piracy world for producing Indonesia's best sailors. The squat 54-year-old captain has been arrested twice, once in Malaysia when he was busted for smuggling bales of Cambodian marijuana, and once in China. Both times he was released after his bosses bribed the authorities, but he suspects his employers arranged both arrests so they could cut his fee, a common ruse. Choosing a boss is a delicate business, he says: "But sometimes we just take the front money...
...Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM), which has led a three-year crusade against the University’s use of sweatshops to produce apparel, has been hotly debating the morality of the Crimson’s decision to employ Cambodian labor, according to PSLM member Benjamin L. McKean...
...While some members feel the paper’s decision represents just another outsourcing move in the increasing trend of globalization, others say they are glad to see that The Crimson and Digital Data Divide are at least trying to provide good wages and good jobs to the Cambodian workers...