Global Sweatshop Wage Slavery
Posted: February 27th, 2010 | Author: admin | Filed under: Big Brother, Economics, Globalization | Tags: cheapest workers, child labor, civil liberties, corporations, dehumanized, economy, employment, global workforce, Globalization, government, overtime, profit, sub-poverty wages, sweatshop, trade unions, transnational corporations, unemployment, women | No Comments »In its mission statement, the National Labor Committee (NLC) highlights the problem stating:
“Transnational corporations (TNCs) now roam the world to find the cheapest and most vulnerable workers.”
They’re mostly young women in poor countries like China, India, Bangladesh, Vietnam, Indonesia, Nicaragua, Haiti, and many others working up to 14 or more hours a day for sub-poverty wages under horrific conditions.
Because TNCs are unaccountable, a dehumanized global workforce is ruthlessly exploited, denied their civil liberties, a living wage, and the right to work in dignity in healthy safe environments. NLC conducts “popular campaigns based on (its) original research to promote worker rights and pressure companies to end human and labor abuses. (It) views worker rights in the global economy as indivisible and inalienable human rights and (believes) now is the time to secure them for all on the planet.”