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Tuesday, October 10, 2006
Sweatshop Workers Speak
Like I needed another reason to hate Wal-Mart.

Clementine Mthethwa worked in a sweatshop in Swaziland, South Africa producing jogging suits and shirts to be shipped to Wal-Mart. She spoke of the harsh conditions and the amount of pressure put on workers, who are expected to produce up to 3,000 orders in a week, causing them to work overtime, again with little compensation.

Mthethwa said that the working conditions are so hard that people have no time to take breaks, and they are not allowed to take time off when they are sick. She said she has witnessed two people die in the sweatshop, one worker and one worker's child, because they were not allowed to go to the hospital.

"People are working hard for their lives," Mthethwa said, "but there is nowhere else to go."

Every time you shop at Wal-Mart, every dollar you spend is a vote to continue this horrendous ill treatment of our fellow human beings.

Full article at the University of South Carolina's Daily Gamecock.
Written at 4:49 AM by Lynne.
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Blogger Greyhair said...
I hate that company.

We're, locally, in the middle of a battle to keep a walscrew out. We're likely to lose because they are proposing the store (smartly) in an impoverished area of the city. But we'll fight anyway. Walmart, leading the way down....
9:06 AM  
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