Word: salvador
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...Salvador, 80,000 people--almost all of which are young women--work in sweatshops. They are paid pennies per hour. They travel for hours to get to the factory. They work from 6:45 a.m. until at least 8 p.m. They work six days a week, 60 hours a week. They are allowed one bathroom break each morning and another at night. They are denied clean drinking water and clean air. They face forced overtime virtually everyday. They are forced to take birth control pills and pregnancy tests and are fired if they become pregnant. They are fired for saying...
...Salvador, the cost of the labor for a $15 T-shirt amounts to all of three cents. The material costs total less than$1.50. There is plenty of room for a living wage and decent working conditions to coexist with corporate profits...
...working to improve the lives of the people of El Salvador attacked by his own government and media as a traitor? If even the El Salvadoran government recognizes that a person receiving the legal minimum wage lives in "extreme poverty," why are sweatshops permitted to exist...
...notions and with any transparency or responsibility that interferes with corporate profits. The rise of global sweatshops is just one effect of the rise of corporate power and of its globalizing reach. The WTO's kind of trade--trade that pretends to have no consequences--pits workers from El Salvador against workers from China in a race to see who can be the most exploited...
...Harvard is to stop enabling oppression in developing nations like El Salvador, it must join the Workers Rights Consortium of other concerned schools. This organization operates on the principles of full disclosure and transparency. Harvard's membership in the Workers Rights Consortium's rival, corporate Fair Labor Association only lends legitimacy to a wildly compromised cover-up attempt...