Anti-Sweatshop.ppt

Anti-Sweatshop Sweatshop Definition Difficult working environment Dangerous working condition Working long hours for very low pay Cause For companies, they provide minimum wages for worker in order to reduce cost. For developing countries, many people need a job to live. Example Trafficking in Persons Factory workers are trafficked and then sweated in legal or illegal shops. Workers in poor countries Only last year, an interviewed Bangladeshi and Vietnamese workers producing Nike T-shirts in Malaysia in familiar, appalling conditions exacerbated by ruthless labor contractors. Foxcoon and Apple Foxconn is apples agent producers, responsible for the final assembly. Workers are working long hours for very low pay. /tech-blog/2012-03-20-now-can-we-start-talking-about-the-real-foxconn/ Strategy Government Non-Government Government U.S policy The new administration needs to connect with real labor activists, in Asia and Central America especially, and allow them to speak for themselves. USAID It had recently made available funds for human rights grants. Law forbid The “action” up to now consisted mainly of getting legislatures around the world to pass laws on trafficking. Watch list Non-Government Organization Personal behavior 250 other economists to sign an open letter to college presidents, urging them not to give in to anti-sweatshop students’ demands. Striker Workers began an unprecedented wave of wildcat strikes. publicity Stop at nothing to end the debasement of our fellow men and women… the defeat of human trafficking is the great moral calling of our time.