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?
Former Member
They hide the fact that if your UE benifits run out and have given up searching for work, you are not counted in their figures. Or if you are working at a part time job without benifits you are not counted either.George - Canada's unemployment rate is currently at 30 year lows. It's a global economy and Canada is clearly benefiting from it.
There is almost no product available that is not made in a terrible situation right now. It is not just clothing. Many of the products we purchase in our grocery stores are packaged in horrible conditions. Did you know th at When Pres.
Clinton was the gov of Arkansas, Tyson Foods got special exemptions so that women stood in cold water while they were cutting and packing chickensome argue that we couldn't afford to live our daily lives if it weren't for horrible work conditions.
Somewhat off of th esubject, a great new book by Rav Patel, I might have the words in the wrong order. Stuffed and Starved. It is about th echoices or lack there of concernign the foods we eat and how they effect the world we live in.
so fellow masters,
would someone more skilled than i draft a letter that we may copy, paste, sign and forward to those at speedo corporate headquaters, usms, usa swimming, and another entities that might be able to pressure said company into monitoring the factories of manufacture and assembly for civilized treatment of its workers?
or....we could talk about steroids some more.
Unfortunately the garment industry has a long history of exploiting workers. There was a brief period of time ('50s and '60s) when North Americans were buying clothes from North American factories and paying prices that reflected a living wage for the machine operators. Store-bought clothes were more expensive then, which is why so many people made their own. Somewhere along the line we got the idea that clothes should be really cheap and almost disposable. That meant outsourcing to poorer countries.
As someone on my favorite sewing site once put it: "People who don't sew think that clothes just magically appear in the discount stores courtesy of the Third World Labour Fairies."
How ironic that the one thing garment workers in communist China really could stand to copy from capitalist North America is... a labour union.
