Licence Plates: metronews.ca/drive/672459/ontarios-license-plates-are-made-by-its-prisoners/ License plates are made in prison. Many of us feel that having a car is convenient and necessary. But, in fact, many innocent people are being put into prison for crimes they didn’t commit as justification for prison labor to make license plates and many people are dying in the Middle East for oil so you can drive that car. Whats more important to you? Having the comfort of convenience and luxury or justice and equality? IKEA Products: Yes, its cheap but how many innocent people are being put in prison for prison labor of ikea products. Microsoft: motherjones/politics/2008/07/what-do-prisoners-make-victorias-secret Windows dressing: In the mid-1990s, Washington prisoners shrink-wrapped software and up to 20,000 Microsoft mouses for subcontractor Exmark (other reported clients: Costco andJanSport). We dont see this as a negative, a Microsoft spokesman said at the time. Dellused federal prisoners for PC recycling in 2003, but stopped after a watchdog group warned that it might expose inmates to toxins. Gildan globalresearch.ca/haiti-is-open-for-business-government-complicity-in-wage-theft-by-foreign-factories/5360409 PORT-AU-PRINCE – Haiti’s minimum wage will nudge up 12% on Jan. 1, from $4.65 to $5.23 (or 200 to 225 gourdes) per day. Calculated hourly, it will go from 58 to 65 cents, before taxes. But the raise will not affect Haiti’s 30,000 assembly factory workers, who are supposed to already be receiving about seven dollars for an eight-hour day – about 87 cents per hour. Recent studies have found rampant wage theft at almost two dozen of the factories that stitch clothing for companies like Gap and Walmart. The wage hike comes almost five years after the Haitian parliament asked for a 200-gourde minimum wage, then worth $4.96 a day, but failed to overcome Washington-backed industry opposition. Agreed to on Nov. 29 by a government-convened Council on Salaries (CSS) – made up of labor, business and government representatives – the raise falls far short of the minimum wage of $11.63 (500 gourdes) that factory worker unions and others were demanding. Chocolate Industry Nestle chocolate https://youtube/watch?v=ZNpwIzeyjKQ Heres a cheery thought while youre baking Nestles Toll House chocolate chip cookie dough: those chocolate chips may have been produced by children working long hours with no pay, some of whom have been injured by machetes. Nestle, the company famous for its chocolates and other foods, is accused of not doing enough to stop the brutal child labor in the chocolate industry, BBC News reported. Its long been known that child labor plays a major role in producing the worlds cocoa,GlobalPost reported, with about 600,000 children in Ivory Coast working on cocoa farms. More from GlobalPost: When the BRICs crumble Nestle, the worlds largest food company, has pledged to stop the practice. More recently, Nestle commissioned the Fair Labor Association to map its cocoa supply chain in the Ivory Coast, the BBC said. globalpost/dispatch/news/regions/africa/120629/nestles-child-labor-violations-are-rampant-new-report-says Anti-Immigrant Legislation and Private Prison Labor: A Modern Day Slavery racismreview/blog/2011/11/29/anti-immigrant-legislation-private-prison-labor/ The Hidden History of ALEC and Prison Labor thenation/article/162478/hidden-history-alec-and-prison-labor https://youtube/watch?v=l1j8D1j9mEc
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