4 days ago by Patrick Pontillo

It's Quite Elementary Watson: America does NOT make money from sweatshop labor. It looses money from it. While Communist Chinese merchandise ships come to America, American money goes to Maoist China. No one pays America to take the merchandise. The Chin- ese communist dictators do not even give Ame ...

Humanity at the 11th Hour - midnightdestiny.com · Rank: 124,815 · 1 reference

8 days ago by journeyhomeburke

There’s a big news article reflecting that Wall Street is acting like babies and they are taking their money sourced from ill gotten gains and the tax payer bailout to fund Mitt Romney. Apparently the Mitt has a broad coalition reflecting the plurality of American national democracy of 45 whole peop ...

Journey Home - journeyhomeburke.wordpress.com · 6 references

9 days ago by Labor Rights

By Tiffany Finck-Hanes “The most important issue is wages, a basic, basic good that people need,” Juana, a worker at a Gildan factory in the Dominican Republic explains. Unfortunately, for Juana and the 1,300 other workers at the Gildan-owned Gildan Dortex plant, it is commonplace to not receive the ...

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9 days ago by Agent Mulder

Sweatshops: A dirty word that conjures up images of obscure rows of employees sitting hunched over in dark dreary and unhygienic factories in countries like Philippines and Bangladesh. While the truth is not far from the fiction, sweatshops have evolved into sophisticated work-areas where employees ...

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11 days ago by V2A

A new petition is demanding Apple make its next smartphone “the first ethical iPhone,” in light of revelations about deadly working conditions at overseas plants where the devices are manufactured. Consumer watchdog group SumOfUs has posted a new online petition calling for Apple to “overhaul the wa ...

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13 days ago by Curator

P O S T E D B Y A L B E R T I. I remember my sense of anticipation some 18 years ago when I landed my first foundation job. None of my friends or colleagues had any inkling what happened inside these black boxes that consistently swallowed our proposals and issued polite rejections. I had heard that ...

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13 days ago by Curator

P O S T E D B Y A L B E R T I. I remember my sense of anticipation some 18 years ago when I landed my first foundation job. None of my friends or colleagues had any inkling what happened inside these black boxes that consistently swallowed our proposals and issued polite rejections. I had heard that ...

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15 days ago by Labor Rights

By Hanna Claeson After more than two months of struggle, backed by international solidarity efforts, fledgling Haitian Garment union “Sendika Ouvriye Takstil ak Abiman” (SOTA, or translated into English, Textile and Apparel Worker’s Union), seems to be achieving the before unthinkable. Five out of t ...

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16 days ago by Patrick Pontillo

It's Quite Elementary Watson: America does NOT make money from sweatshop labor. It looses money from it. When Communist China's ships come to America, American money goes to China. No one pays America to take the merchandise. The Chinese communist dictators do not give Americans a commission for sel ...

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16 days ago by gerrycanavan

* Gingrich’s support is plateauing just when he finally won my heart. Who will bomb Cuba now? * With all this insane cash it’s making, you’d almost think Apple doesn’t actually need to use slave labor. * Now you can see global warming at work in your very own garden. * Actually existing media bias: ...

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