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Nike Says Its Factory Workers Earn Nearly Double the Minimum Wage. At This Cambodian Factory, 1% Made That Much.

www.propublica.org

There is Phan Oem, 53, who says she clocked up to 76 hours a week producing clothing for Nike and other American brands, sometimes forced to work seven days a week. She says she feared being fired if she didn’t work through lunch breaks, on holidays and occasionally overnight. After 12 years spent packaging clothes, her base pay was the minimum wage: $204 a month.

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Just a reminder, these corporations and not making razor thin margins. They can afford to pay better wages.
- Razor thin describes operation expenses nowadays. Basically non existent corporate taxes ensure this kind of behavior. No reason to reinvest if you can keep all the profits without any of the taxes.
- it's telling that the starburies were worse shoes than jordans, but they weren't $150 worse. if their workers had been paid, they probably still would have cost more, but they engaged in the exact same sweat shop labor as nike and adidas and offered a product for nearly 1/10th the price

A corporation lying? That’s a first.

Can't wait for this factory to be moved to USA.
- By the time it gets here, the workers will have the same conditions if the Republicans get their way.
  
  this has always been the dirty trick of fascism. you won't get a cushy job for running off your marginalized neighbor or isolating yourself from the countries you've long exploited. you will instead become the new marginalized class, and your community will become the exploited colony of the empire.

Back in the day Nike was fashion-non-grata due to their well known child labor practices. The fact that they reinvented the brand to the degree that they actually became aligned with punk/skater culture still blows my mind. Advertising is a powerful tool.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nike_sweatshops

American goods, just don’t buy it!

This is why I'm for tarriffs dependent on wage, labor and environmental standards. If you're moving production to another country because they have some resource or large field of experts fair enough. If you're moving production over seas to dodge labor and environmental regulations you should pay up. It also encourages those countries to raise wage and labor standards to avoid tarriffs.
Trumps tarriffs are idiotic, tarriffs on countries with higher labor standards like Canada and the EU aren't helping anyone. The countries that do have low labor and environmental standards aren't going to raise them to avoid the tarriffs, it seems trump just wants to get them to buy more American goods to lower the trade deficit for some reason.

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