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Sweatshops in Asia

Sweatshops in Asia. Where D o Your Products Come From?. Submitted by: Yunuel Valdez. Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). $7.25 / hr (Effective July 24, 2009) Overtime-Over 40 hours Recordkeeping – Employers must display official poster outlining FLSA requirements Youth Employment.

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Sweatshops in Asia

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  1. Sweatshops in Asia Where Do Your Products Come From? Submitted by: Yunuel Valdez

  2. Fair Labor Standards Act(FLSA) • $7.25 / hr (Effective July 24, 2009) • Overtime-Over 40 hours • Recordkeeping – Employers must display official poster outlining FLSA requirements • Youth Employment

  3. Corporate Social Responsibility • Business’ are to commit to behaving ethically and contribute to economic development while improving the quality of life of the workforce and their families as well as of the local community and society at large Carlos Crespo

  4. Child Labor Laws • Children in the U.S. under 18 may not work in: • Excavation • Construction • Any field where conditions may be harmful in a physical or mental manner • Children in Indonesia, as young as age 14, have been known to work in: • Manufacturing of explosives • Mining • Pearl Diving Carlos Crespo

  5. Solutions • U.S. Department of Labor funds $6 million Education Initiative • KramatJali Police Hospital Center • National Plan of Action for the Elimination of the Worst Forms of Child Labor • Off-shore fishing and diving • Prostitution • Mining • Footwear Production • Drug Trafficking Carlos Crespo

  6. The Forced Labor Summited by: Edwin S.

  7. Pro’s & Con’s • Pro’s • Providing jobs to workers in other countries. • Manufacturing products at an extremely low cost • Providing business to companies in other countries • Con’s • Encouraging… • illegal working conditions • Low pay rates • Abusive environment • Extreme expectations • Abusing Worker’s rights • More American companies to migrate into 3rd world countries to exploit their laws and workers. Submitted by: Yunuel Valdez

  8. What are the real environments like for these workers in these sweatshops in third-world countries? • Bad conditions • “Scars Brought Home” • Negative thoughts Summited by: Edwin S.

  9. Edwin S. Submitted by: Yunuel Valdez

  10. The Bad Conditions • Low pay rate • Poor living environment • Forced labor • Physical abuse • Sexual abuse Summited by: Edwin S.

  11. Nike in Malaysia Summited by: Edwin S.

  12. The “Scars Brought Home” • At times it is physical and at times it is mental. Summited by: Edwin S.

  13. What’s On Their Mind? • Like the taxi driver, many of these employees are not happy with what they are doing but do it anyways in order to benefit themselves or others. Summited by: Edwin S.

  14. Any Benefits from Sweatshops? • Many workers leave other jobs with far worse conditions to work in sweatshops. • When children were taken out of sweatshops in Bangladesh, thousands of them became prostitutes or starved. Summited by: Edwin S.

  15. Yunuel Valdez Submitted by: Yunuel Valdez

  16. What’s a sweatshop? Submitted by: Yunuel Valdez

  17. Google Definition…. Submitted by: Yunuel Valdez

  18. Is It Illegal? • Despite international and domestic human rights agreements, many countries fail to protect the rights of their workers, and often have a hand in their exploitation. For instance, the trafficking of Thai women to Japan as means of cheap labor often includes debt bondage, forced labor and many other abuses. • In other words, yes it is! Submitted by: Yunuel Valdez

  19. Is It Really That bad? • You tell me… Submitted by: Yunuel Valdez

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  21. How Do Companies Get Away With It? Submitted by: Yunuel Valdez

  22. Living in the dorm of a sweatshop! • No privacy • Uncomfortable beds • They did not have much money so they only had a few Belongings • The people sharedbunk beds • Little to eat • Had to Bath in buckets of cold water Submitted by: Ashley J Cooper

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  24. Child Labor • Children were forced to work in sweatshops. • Some had to work longer hours than the adults. • They would get hurt working on the machines or doing other things they were told to do. • Blister , burns, and other body aches. • If they were too young too do hard labor they would have them do things like sweep floors. Submitted by: Ashley J Cooper

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  26. It’s just crazy to me to see how children from ages 5 to 14 are working. • This graph shows more females than males work. Submitted by: Ashley J Cooper

  27. Adult Labor • Workers got paid little to nothing • Sometimes did not get paid for months at a time. • They were tired of getting bullied but could not do anything about it because they lived in fear of getting fired • The money they earned went right back into their bosses pockets because they had to pay for room and board. Submitted by: Ashley J Cooper

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  29. Asia Monitor Resource Centre • NGO = non-governmental organization • Established in Hong Kong 1976 • Workers Rights Advocates

  30. Labour Action China • Protection of Labor Rights • Supports Labor Rights Protests • Hong Kong, Southern China

  31. Freedom of Speech • January 26th 2010 • China hacks Google E-mail accounts. • Most are human rights activists accounts. • Censorship!

  32. Consequences of Protest • Death • Imprisonment • Harassment • Verbal Threats • Bodily Harm • Tear Gas

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