Douglas Becker ([log in to unmask]) wrote:
: Thank you, Mr. Rosenblat for your inspiring words and reminding us of the
: higher successful endeavors of mankind.
:
: I am certainly grateful for the Bill of Rights, as well as, the Magna Carta
: and the Ten Commandments.
:
: However, it should be noted that none of those apply to anyone involved
: with the management of the misfortune 500 companies, where you leave your
: morals at home and church, what is right is what the people around you
: want, and the Bill of Rights, Magna Carta, and Ten Commandments are about
: as welcome and relevant as a ham at Bar Mitzvah.
:
Then there's globlization where the only rule is "greed is good"...

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   Sweating For Nothing


                    "Still Waiting For Nike To Do It

   A detailed investigation by Global Exchange, titled "Still Waiting for
   Nike to Do It," shows that workers making Nike products continue to
   work for wages insufficient for supporting a family, are forced to
   work long overtime hours, and face harassment, violent intimidation
   and firing if they organize to defend their rights or tell journalists
   about abuses in their factories.
     _________________________________________________________________

   Send a fax to Philip Knight asking that Nike take
   immediate and concrete steps to ensure that the people making the
   company's products aren't facing abuse and intimidation.

   Contrary to what many would like to believe, sweatshops are not
   working for the people of developing nations. In many cases, sweatshop
   workers, employed by large multinational corporations, are trapped in
   a system of modern day indentured servitude comparable to slavery and
   denied basic human freedoms like the right to join a union, attend
   religious services, quit or marry. Menial wages and reports of
   physical abuse in addition are typical of a new economic world order
   in which the poor are getting poorer and the rich growing richer.

   The anti-sweatshop movement strives to eliminate these poor conditions
   in garment and shoe factories by pressuring companies to disclose the
   location of factories, pay workers a living wage, allow independent
   monitoring of factories and ensure workers the right to organize in
   independent unions. Did you know...

     * Cambodian garment workers make $40 a month sewing clothes for Gap,
       Inc. They are requesting a living wage of $60 a month to meet
       their families' basic human needs such as food, clothing, shelter
       and education. Is this too much to ask from a company worth $28
       billion, whose CEO Millard Drexler made over $39 million in 2000?

     * Asian immigrant women in Saipan, a U.S. territory, work under a
       system of indentured servitude. Many of the 45,000 workers live in
       unsanitary barracks behind barbed wire where they sew clothes 12
       hours a day, seven days a week for retailers like The Gap, J.C.
       Penney, Levi's, Abercrombie and Fitch, and The Limited.

     * Child labor is rampant in Tehuacan, the jean capital of Mexico.
       Workers there make so little that families are forced to send
       their children to the garment factories rather than to school.

     * Starbucks is the largest retailer of gourmet coffee in the
       country, yet they pay their coffee growers poverty prices. In
       Guatemala, less than 4 percent of the coffee plantations even have
       schools.

     * In China, most people make less than $1 a day. Most factories
       where toys are made in China do not allow independent trade
       unions...."



--Jerry Leslie     (my opinions are strictly my own)

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