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Disabled adults get $240 million for abuse by company
If you aren't already aware, a jury awarded a group of mentally challenged adults $240 million for the horrible abuse they suffered at a turkey processing plant in Iowa City, Iowa. Some of these individuals worked at this plant since the 1970s. They were only paid $65 a... Walmart ignores victims of factory fire and sex for McDonalds
Issues in the News:I. Walmart and Sears aren't going to pay anything to the victims, and their families, who either died or were hurt in the Bangladesh factory fire. More then 120 people died in this factory. WalMart has destroyed jobs in America, almost single handly... Beyonce and Jay-Z spent their 5th wedding in Cuba
Beyonce and Jay-Z spent their 5th wedding anniversary celebrating in Havana, Cuba. Cuba is a dictatorship and has been so even before Castro was in power. We looked the other way during the Batista regime, but for decades we have had sanctions on trade and travel by Americans... Bad Nike and Republicans allowing employers to demand passwords
Thoughts on a variety of issues: I. U.S. Rep. Steven King, a Republican from Ohio, believes that we should not have any laws protecting gays from discrimination, becase they can hide their sexual orientation. So, according to King's logic, it is O.K. to discriminate based... Suzy Hamilton has nothing to be ashamed about being a sex worker
Suzy Favor Hamilton, who was one of the better Olympians to ever come out of the state of Wisconsin, attended the University of Wisconsin Stevens Point a few years before I did. That is where the similarities between her and I pretty much end. I did play rugby, not too well... Bad Nike and Republicans allowing employers to demand passwords
Thoughts on a variety of issues: I. U.S. Rep. Steven King, a Republican from Ohio, believes that we should not have any laws protecting gays from discrimination, becase they can hide their sexual orientation. So, according to King's logic, it is O.K. to discriminate based... UT students arrested during protest
AUSTIN—Students at the University of Texas were arrested and charged with criminal trespassing after refusing to leave the fourth floor of the Main Building on Wednesday evening. The 18 students, members of the Students Against Sweatshops... Foxconn to Replace Sweatshop Workers with Robots
Foxconn to 'Hire' 1 Million Robots Foxconn, the Chinese electronics contract manufacturer best known for assembling iPhones and iPads, is aiming to increase its automated workforce: in three years, Foxconn hopes to...
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Who are the greedy ones (ode to Primark)?
Who are the greedy ones?
Is it the young shop-aholics,
Who go to Primark every Saturday to meet their friends,
Try on the clothes, have a laugh and buy some gear?
Only to discard them in their... 1830 views | 24 recommendations | 4 comments
Sweat-shops: dream or curse?
"It may shock Americans to hear this, the challenge of poor countries is not that sweatshops exploit too many people; but that they don't exploit enough"...... Nicholas D. Kristof, New York... 1398 views | 46 recommendations | 9 comments
Sweatshops: capitalism's demons!
"There’s no such thing as cheap clothing. Somebody has to pay. In this case it’s the workers in Manchester”…Neil Kearney, trade unionist.
The BBC has dug up a good story: sweatshops in... 2238 views | 103 recommendations | 22 comments
Salmon for $5/lb.? Something's fishy about big-box retailers.
"If you were so inclined, you couldn't mail a pound of salmon back to Chile for $4.84. ... What exactly did Wal-Mart have to do to get salmon [from Chile] so cheaply? ... they ... don't want to have to explain...Santa's Sweatshop
" Of course while Ms. Claus gets exploited so do the elves,after all they represent a classic icon for child labour don't they. Santa's Sweatshop. Producing all those sweatshop toys for girls and boys, in the developed world. But you can now shop sweatfree."China's Art Factories: Van Gogh From the Sweatshop
Southern China is the world's leading center for mass-produced works of art. One village of artists exports about five million paintings every year -- most of them copies of famous masterpieces. The fastest workers can paint up to 30 paintings a day.Paradise lost: sweat shops and sex slavery on Saipan
The whir of hundreds of sewing machines reverberates in the thick, dusty air at the RIFU garment factory. Inside this large warehouse, behind a...Top Members Today
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