Claudia Ebel is traveling across Thailand this summer, but her itinerary is no vacation. The University of Colorado at Boulder sophomore is meeting with sweatshop workers, promoting a plan to change how college clothes are made--and the lives of the people who make them. This [RETURN TO ARTICLE]
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Sweatshops:
For about three decades I have been writing congress and labor unions on this topic with nothing to show for it except the usual canned reply form letters.
We have been complicit in endangering the health and welfare of people to get low-cost labor which saves a few pennies per item at our local stores.
Individual appeals have little chance of changing these policies and our unions loss of jobs membership shows how little the union leaders have done to protect anyone.
It is noble of these students to attempt such a huge challenge. Good cause
I find that the student protests against sweat shops are absurd. The sweat shop workers BENEFIT from sweat shops in their area. Without the factories, they would be starving and unemployed.
I saw a documentary where sweat shop workers who lost their jobs after their factory closed (Due to these protests) cursed off american college students for making them lose their jobs when they have zero idea what they’re talking about.
The protests are not absurd!
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