My beef has always been that our government should restrict trade with countries that do not adhere to the same standards as we do re. building and OSHA type codes. We can't compete against countries that have no Social Security, no OSHA laws, no workmen's comp. or building codes. Free trade only when the playing field is level.
You know, REGULATIONS. Something America has too many of, according to those that love to offshore and profiteer from. This is another example of corporate greed. Workers are just expendable cattle.
To the United Food & Commercial Workers International Union, instead of trying to organize Walmart employees, who appear in droves not to want to be unionized, why not help these people?
Join with the garment workers union and go to Bangladesh to organize there. You all claim to be international unions. These third world countries are where the USA was 100 years ago. They need the help with safety rules, pay and working conditions.
Walmart employees, as do many American workers, drank the proverbial koolaid and believe that workers need never band together for fair conditions; since regulations exist to protect workers here and offer fair pay... oh, wait, they keep missing any number of articles about corporate welfare, offshoring, wage devaluation, etc...
I support fair living for all. The day corporate CEOs felt their own pay (40x of their workers) was too small and decided to gut our workers while exploit workers everywhere else* for their personal gain... it's hard to be pro-business when it is anti-worker. And symbiotic relationships are always more ethical than parasitic ones.
If Wal-Mart is breaking any labor laws, why isn't charges being filed on Wal-Mart. It's the uNIONS that is breaking labor laws by making up laws that no-one but them-selves claims!
There won't be any safety revolution. Bangladesh is a horribly impoverished country. I would like to know which U.S. companies/stores were buying products from this Bangladeshi sweatshop so that we can put pressure on those U.S. companies to step up to the plate and push to ensure safer working conditions over there.
Good luck; companies use these locations due to lower "cost" and lack of regulations that might have saved these peoples' lives!
Analyze the root cause.
Muswell-2009's reply sums it up rather nimbly. But what pressure can we apply? More regulations? That's what drove companies to use these worker cattle in other countries so they wouldn't have to pay decent wages, have proper fire containment systems, or any other regulations that would have peoples' lives.
That's the point. Corporate greed and anti-life philosophies.
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We can't compete against countries that have no Social Security, no OSHA laws, no workmen's comp. or building codes. Free trade only when the playing field is level.
You know, REGULATIONS. Something America has too many of, according to those that love to offshore and profiteer from. This is another example of corporate greed. Workers are just expendable cattle.
Join with the garment workers union and go to Bangladesh to organize there. You all claim to be international unions. These third world countries are where the USA was 100 years ago. They need the help with safety rules, pay and working conditions.
I support fair living for all. The day corporate CEOs felt their own pay (40x of their workers) was too small and decided to gut our workers while exploit workers everywhere else* for their personal gain... it's hard to be pro-business when it is anti-worker. And symbiotic relationships are always more ethical than parasitic ones.
* so in one way or another, we're all exploited.
Analyze the root cause.
Muswell-2009's reply sums it up rather nimbly. But what pressure can we apply? More regulations? That's what drove companies to use these worker cattle in other countries so they wouldn't have to pay decent wages, have proper fire containment systems, or any other regulations that would have peoples' lives.
That's the point. Corporate greed and anti-life philosophies.