Sweatshop Controversies
by About how most of our clothes are produced out of state.
Kayla Jackson
Low wages, long hours and poor working conditions are three out of a long list of words that describe sweat shops.
A while back the US had created a Sweatshop Act. This act is defined as:unsafe and unhealthy working conditions, locked exits, poor ventilation, low wages, over time pay and retaliation against workers
Image by Brooklyn Museum via Flickr
Image by Brooklyn Museum via Flickr
who stand up for their rights. This proposed law would make both contractors and retailers liable.
Many companies like Nike, coca – cola, Disney, gap, and even wal-mart, are big users of sweats shops, but Sweat shops are not directly owned by companies, and it becomes very hard for any one to hold these companies responsible.
Companies like Disney, Gap and Nike who have been targeted by groups like USAS and behind the label, have been trying to improve the working conditions for their workers, according to CNN.
A united student against sweatshops (USAS) is a network of students in North American who have been
fighting for the rights of workers since 1991. USAS coordinates two major areas of campaign work: the sweat free campus campaign, which is a campaign that persuades college campuses to stop using sweat shop, produced items, or in other words be come “sweat free”, and t the campus worker solidarity, which
According to www.Behind theLabel.org, the global economy has caused many companies to move to developing countries, where wages are much lower than the wages here in the U.S. Behind the label explains that multination corporations are free to go and find lower wages which usually lead to these bad work conditions that have no legal protection.
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