Monday, December 29, 2008

Sweatshops in china







China is where most Ameican metrial things are made, china holds lots of sweatshops. The factory in have 12,and 13 hours work hours and .33 cents pay per hour. This most be the worst condition in a sweatshop. Its like the chinese government does not care for their people. It doesnt matter to them the wrong in what they due. China has been observed alot by labor watchers. "On December 15, 2005 China Labor Watch and the National Labor Committee released two reports on Wal-Mart factories in Southern China. One factory manufactures stationary, such as notebooks and holiday cards. The other produces toys, such as battery-operated trucks (see picture above). In both factories workers receive dismal wages, are cramped into hot dormitories and work exhausting hours at an unbelievably fast pace. Workers are working up to thirteen hours a day, six to seven days a week." The workers work exhausting hour without respentation. They do not have a union or a group whom speakers out for their needs,the works do not have any insuarce, or benefits. The worst thing in my opinion is thats no one seems to care for thier needs. Its is another expenice for the factory owners, and of course the number one thing on thier minds is max. profit. "China has a single trade union system organized through the All-China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU). It is well-known that China does not comply with ILO Convention No.87 (Freedom of Association and protection of the Right to Organize), nor Convention No.98 (Right to Organize and Collective Bargaining). It has not ratified those Conventions, mainly because China does not enable independent unions to be formed."









Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Sweatshop conditions






When you think of sweatshops you think of conditions that are bad, dangerous, cramped, hot, unhealthy. When sweatshops are even worst than you may be thinking already. The things that happen there are worst then anything we have ever experinced. Its like being traped and enslaved. They only way the people there could eat is by working in them, but the work they do is bad. The money is not good, for the amount of work being done."Sweatshops are work environments that possess three major characteristics—long hours, low pay, and unsafe or unhealthy working conditions. Sweatshops have been a factor in the production of goods around the world for centuries, but the globalization of business has led increasing numbers of major corporations to take advantage of low-cost sweatshop labor in developing countries. Recent examples of sweatshop conditions in the garment industry have caused an international outcry by labor leaders, activists, and government officials. Although manufacturers tend to deny it, sweatshops still exist, even in the United States." This is done by most of the command companies in the U.S.A. Most of the poducts we buy are made out of the long hours and low pay someone else in the world made. The conditions in sweatshops are worst than anything you could image in the U.S. The lowest paying job could not compare, or the dirty jobs.


-Sweatshops are work environments that possess three major characteristics—long hours, low pay, and unsafe or unhealthy working conditions. Sweatshops have been a factor in the production of goods around the world for centuries, but the globalization of business has led increasing numbers of major corporations to take advantage of low-cost sweatshop labor in developing countries. Recent examples of sweatshop conditions in the garment industry have caused an international outcry by labor leaders, activists, and government officials. Although manufacturers tend to deny it, sweatshops still exist, even in the United States.


-Sweatshops are work environments that possess three major characteristics—long hours, low pay, and unsafe or unhealthy working conditions. Sweatshops have been a factor in the production of goods around the world for centuries, but the globalization of business has led increasing numbers of major corporations to take advantage of low-cost sweatshop labor in developing countries. Recent examples of sweatshop conditions in the garment industry have caused an international outcry by labor leaders, activists, and government officials. Although manufacturers tend to deny it, sweatshops still exist, even in the United States.


Child Labor in SweatShops


CHILD LABOR IN SWEATSHOPS is one the biggest problem, child that should be in school are slaveing in this sweat shops. Children should only beable to work short hours, so they have time to do other things. However in these shops child are use as tools. This could cause big problem in thier lives. "The International Labor Organization (ILO) has estimated that 250 million children between the ages of five and fourteen work in developing countries. 61% in Asia, 32% in Africa and 7% in Latin America. Many of these children are forced to work. They are denied an education and a normal childhood. Some are confined and beaten. Some are denied the right to leave the workplace and go home to their families. Some are even abducted and forced to work." Children are our future in conditions like that how could they grow to be anything. To force a child to work is the biggest problem with sweatshops. They take everything away from them and give them nothing, maybe a few pennies for their long hours and hard work. In the developing countries that these kids are from the fact is they need to work to help the family. They dont care how much they make. Thats the only thing they could get, thats why most people working in other countries should have more apprecation for their jobs, and childhood. Children working the sweatshops make thing such as Shoes, Clothing, Rugs, Toys, Chocolate, Bananas, Coffee, etc.


Thursday, November 13, 2008

U.S. RETAILERS:




U.S. RETAILERS:
R e s p o n s i b l e
F o r t h e
GLOBAL S WEATSHOP
CRISIS






The people most responsible for sweatshops are U.S. retailers, they care only for the money. There is no concern for the way thing get done, or the people hurt. They keep doing things the same way. Its like nomatter how hard they try to take them down U.S. retailers find a way. Sweatshops is a crisis, its something that has been going on more then needed. "Over the past 15 years, powerful U.S. clothing retailers such asWal-Mart, Lord & Taylor and The Gap have created a global sweatshop crisis." Mostly clothing retailer have had big sweatshops, they need their products done fast and cheap. They make a BRAND in the U.S. where they have loyal custmers, while they make it cheaply around the globe. This has made tremendous wealth for retail executives and shareholders. But what about the works who make the clothes? they suffer the consequences. Retailers control how much workers are paid and the conditions in which they work and live." U.S. apparel retailers have been the driving force behind the globalization of the apppared industry, shifting production form countries and regions with decent working standards to those where brutal regimes reign and workers have no rights. They have lowered living standards even for workers in develped countires such as the U.S." Sweatshops come in all shapes and sizes. They could be huge with 10,000 workers, or a few woman sewing garments at home.

Tuesday, October 28, 2008

"Secrets, Lies, And Sweatshops"





Businessweek aritcle about american importers have long answered criticism of conditions at their chinese suppliers. New labor rules and inspections have been made to try and end sweatshops. Factories have just gotten better at conceling abuses. Tang Yinghong caught in an impossible squeeze. He has been employing, Ningbo Beifa Group. They are a top supplier of pen, mechanical pencils, and highlighters to Wal-Mart Stores. Auditors form Wal-Mart, Beifa's biggest customer, were about to inspect labor condtions at the factory in the chinese coastal city of Nigbo. Wal-mart had already on three different occasions caught Beifa paying its 3,000 workers less than China's minimum wage and violating overtime rules. "For more than a decade, major American retailers and name brands have answered accusations that they exploit "sweatshop" labor with elaborate codes of conduct and on-site monitoring. But in China many factories have just gotten better at concealing abuses." These companies are just getting away with sweatshops in china. There is not enough effert on stoping sweatshops.

Secrets, Lies, And Sweatshops"

Tuesday, October 21, 2008

NIKE SWEATSHOPS



"THE MOST POPULAR SHOE." "THE BEST SHOE, EVERYONE HAS A PAIR OF NIKES." These are some comments made on Nike, they are a major clothing and shoe company. They are at the top of the manufactoring change. The question is where do they make thier products? "Workers are paid wages insufficient to meet their basic needs, are not allowed to organize independent unions, and often face health and safety hazards." In other words people work in a sweatshop. Nike does say that because they do not own the factories where their shoes are made, they are not responsiblie, however if they are the main buy to the factories and if the factories is only making thier shoes is their a difference. I would think not its the same difference. "Vietnamese and Chinese workers still get poverty wages. In all three countries, $4 a day would be considered a decent wage. Nike, a company with $8.7 billion in revenue in 1998 that sells its shoes for $150, can well afford to pay its workers such a meager sum."


You would think that a company makeing that much profit would help out their employees. But what if nike didnt have the opion to pay low wages. Would they get the job done for a regular, real, min. wage. Or would their shoes be $300 or $400.

-http://www.globalexchange.org/campaigns/sweatshops/nike/

Gap, Banana Republic, and Old Navy!


Major companies that we shop at, that we only look at what have and not how they got it. They are the ones that need to open sweatshops. Their demand for goods are high. Major companies such as Gap, Banana Republic, and Old Navy.
"• In October 2007, Indian authorities raided factories in New Dehli that produce clothing for the Gap and found children as young as 10 working there.
• Another Indian factory that manufactures for the Gap was the site of 3 deaths in 2007 because it refused to allow employees to leave when they became seriously ill at work.
• The Gap was part of a settlement from a lawsuit brought against 22 companies for using sweatshop labor in Saipan, a US territory in the South Pacific. The Gap has also been linked to sweatshops in at least six countries.
• You don’t have to wear clothing that exploits people and the planet. Visit Go Green to find out how you can be stylish and sustainable."
These stores are combine and manufactor in the same sweatshops, they get the job done cheap. And keep the price of the clothes high, to max their profit. Millions of people shop at these stores, all over the world. I wonder if anyone would if they knew how the got their clothes. That a child under 10 years old, was working a long day to make that shirt they have on.

Monday, October 20, 2008

My Thoughts!


Sweatshops are made by big corportations to get work done cheap. Sweatshops are uasually factories in poor countrys where they could pay the employess extremely low wages. The corportations do not care about the area where they oporate. They dont take care of the people or the factories. The idea of sweatshops is to get more money, and nothing else. Dangerous conditions, usually where the workers have few rights. This can include exposure to harmful materials, hazardous situations, extreme temperatures, or abuse from employers. Sweatshop workers are often forced to work long hours for little pay, Child labor laws may also be violated. Sweatshop have been around a long time since the 1850 where they where used to make clothes and furniture. People who defend sweatshops say that they offer higher wages and better working condition compared to their previous jobs. They say that a Poor country could turn itself into a rich country with the money income form sweatshops.