according to some sources, speedo (or companies hired to produce products for speedo) is guilty of serious abuse of its employees. follow the link.
www.nlcnet.org/reports.php
something to think about as we watch those lzr clad titans breaking records.
do we care?
should we (usms and usa swimming) act?
makes me wonder...........how 'bout you?
The abuse that goes on carries over to the abuse that happens here. There is no work here for the workers displaced by sending jobs overseas.
George - Canada's unemployment rate is currently at 30 year lows. It's a global economy and Canada is clearly benefiting from it.
If Speedo is a partner or preferred vendor of USMS, then perhaps USMS should have a policy statement, one that would apply to third-party vendors as well, such as SwimOutlet. However, I would not put the onus on a volunteer organization.
An Olympics season is a good time to draw attention, especially if the LZR suits are on the podium.
VB
though usms is primarily a volunteer org, there are some 40,000 members, add children, spouses etc and i would say that the potential number of swim product consumers is a couple of hundred thousand (off the top of my head)
a force sufficient to send a message to any company competing for their expendable income.
I'm not sure, but those of us in the USA might be appalled to learn that a great many of the products we buy and use everyday (that are imported) come from less than desirable working conditions. The Olympics bring a focus to China in particular, but there are plenty of dangerous and abusive work environments around the globe funded by our consumption-based economy.
Try to find a reasonably priced shoe not made in China these days...
Look at some of the raids done here in the states where illegals are working! Guarantee we wouldn't work under those conditions!!!!!
Owners of these companies should be made to work there for a couple of months under the same conditions.
i think this might be a good cause for amanda and the rest of them to go naked! (i could get behind that)
i won't be shedding my speedo for the lake champlain swim this saturday.
(sea lamprey phobia)
She can now compete naked because our suits are made under terrible conditions.
She and the others sort of are competing naked.
The suits have a transparency under certain conditions.
Lots of chatter when Phelps did his infamous Vitruvian man pose in front of the camera flashes.
She and the others sort of are competing naked.
The suits have a transparency under certain conditions.
Lots of chatter when Phelps did his infamous Vitruvian man pose in front of the camera flashes.
Will the new USA flag "art" on the LZR take care of that transparency?
