Why demanding others to struggle for your cause? Why not struggle for your own cause and join them as one for the national minimum wage? Why is it just garment worker? Why isnt it teacher? The teacher earn a bachelor degree, and they get [an] even lower [salary] than garment factory worker? Chek asks. When I ask another friend what she thinks about strikers demanding $160 per month, she rolls her eyes. Why they dont talk about a national minimum wage, she spits. Shes what we call in the States a knowledge worker - someone engaged in public education and information dissemination but who doesnt work in a classroom. The place she works put the kibosh on public participation in political demonstrations even before the violence broke out; Im not going to name her here. What she asked me next echoed Cheks query: Why should garment workers be paid almost three times their peers? Certainly wages should not be distributed along a scale of moral appropriateness, whereby knowledge workers are paid more than mere emotional or physical laborers, and certainly not one determined by an American sensibility. But higher education is expensive in the country. Other questions are raised: What does it imply that already the wages of factory workers who create products largely for American consumption remain the best hope of economic security for women besides marrying a high-ranking and corrupt government official?
Posted on: Sat, 25 Jan 2014 02:09:08 +0000
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