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For the Global Thinker

Friday, February 5, 2010

Women Paid 10 Cents to Sew $80 NFL Peyton Manning Jerseys





This article is harsh, but it's almost comical at how greedy those corporations are. 


NFL jerseys have been sewn under illegal sweatshop conditions at the Chi Fung factory in El Salvador for at least the last four years, according to a new report by the National Labor Committee.  Often forced to work 12-hour shifts, workers were at the factory 61 to 65 hours a week, including 12 to 15 hours of obligatory overtime, which was unpaid.  The workers were paid a below-subsistence wage of just 72 cents an hour, which meets less than a quarter of a family's basic subsistence needs for food, housing, healthcare and clothing.
Read more here...
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/national-labor-committee-women-paid-10-cents-to-sew-80-peyton-manning-jerseys-for-nfl-and-reebok-83531737.html

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