Child Labor and Sweatshops | Workplace Codes Will Not Prevent Sweatshop Abuses
Medea Benjamin is the director of Global Exchange, a San Francisco– based human rights organization.
Summary: Some U.S. companies that sell goods produced in foreign factories have agreed to adopt the Workplace Code of Conduct—a list of minimum standards for treatment of factory workers that was drawn up by a coalition of industry, labor, and human rights groups. These minimum standards will not adequately protect workers’ human rights because they do not guarantee a living wage, freedom from mandatory overtime, or the right to collective bargaining....
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