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Just a few years ago, most Americans had never heard the phrase "fair trade." Today corporations as mainstream as McDonald's and Wal-Mart are using coffee beans harvested by growers in developing countries who are paid a living wage rather than the minimum one. And now the movement is coming into fashion ... literally...
This approach squares with Administration policy on other "enemy combatants." Whether they are American citizens held in the U.S. or foreigners held at Guantánamo Bay, the White House has insisted that they fall beyond the jurisdiction of U.S. courts because the President has exclusive power to wage war and deny "combatants" the rights of ordinary citizens. The Supreme Court rejected that argument, although last Tuesday the Washington court of appeals upheld a law eliminating the right of foreign detainees at Guantánamo Bay to file for habeas corpus...
...training and tests. The $300 associated cost comes out of the amah's pocket, which is what has Hong Kong's Filipinas up in arms. They're quick to note that they already pay the government placement fees while, at the same time, Hong Kong officials cut their minimum wage by $50 a month two years ago. "How will we afford this on our small salaries?" asks Dolores Balladares, the march's organizer. "Our government just wants to make our lives more burdened and more miserable...
...Cabinet Office report found that household sentiment swooned in December, and Japan's top three department stores reported declining sales in the run-up to the country's New Year holiday. While unemployment has declined from 5.4% in 2002 to 4.1% at the end of 2006, wages have gone nowhere. According to statistics from the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, the average Japanese made $2,881 a month in 2002. For most of 2006, the average monthly wage was only $2,749. "The statistics say that the economy is in good shape, but people can't feel that," says...
...power" the nation's top priority, and the issue has become the central theme of the presidential election campaign, with candidates on both left and right making a range of expensive promises to boost income for the middle class and the less well-off alike. After several years of wage restraint, unions in Germany, the Netherlands and elsewhere are pushing for substantial hikes this year. Now that the economy is doing better again, Dutch workers "think it's their time to get something back," says Marco van Moort, spokesman for the biggest Dutch union, Bondgenoten FNV. Builders in the Netherlands...