Word: sweatshops
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...outsourcing of services forms a compelling correlary to the use of sweatshop labor in third world countries. In both situations major corporations have out-sourced forms of labor in order to cut costs and focus on their primary missions (in the clothing company’s case, the building of their brand). In both cases outsourced workers have substantially less bargaining power with either their contractors or the large American corporations who employ them. And, in both situations the consumers of the goods and services have protested the conditions of the workers, holding the primary corporations responsible for their contractor?...
...Anti-sweatshop activitsts applauded a rare victory in union-organizing when factory workers and representatives of the Workers Rights Consortium (WRC), a non-profit sweatshop watchdog group, testified to the “unprecendented” success of recent efforts to create an independent, democratic union in the Kukdong apparel plant in Mexico last Thursday...
Some students said that hearing workers’ personal stories made them feel more strongly about sweatshop conditions...
...urged students to refuse to allow American universities to perpetuate the “starvation wages and miserable living conditions” of the sweatshop laborers...
Although Kernaghan and the workers criticized universities’ tolerance for sweatshop working conditions, they also urged students to fight to keep the collegiate apparel business in Bangladesh. Workers need jobs, they said. But they also need solid labor laws to protect them...