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The GOP is viciously apposed to raising the minimum wage. The intend to abolish it as well a child labor laws. Their meme about over regulation means ending all labor laws. And freeing business to rape rape at will. They are like the Borg - "Resistance is futile."
If you want a decent wage you are a communist. That is their stance built in stone. So their reply. ST-U and comply.
no_hypocrisy
(46,160 posts)abq e streeter
(7,658 posts)slampoet
(5,032 posts)libtodeath
(2,888 posts)they keep it and the wealth they steal by having it.
rfranklin
(13,200 posts)It started when Haiti passed a law two years ago raising its minimum wage to 61 cents an hour. According to an embassy cable:
This infuriated American corporations like Hanes and Levi Strauss that pay Haitians slave wages to sew their clothes. They said they would only fork over a seven-cent-an-hour increase, and they got the State Department involved. The U.S. ambassador put pressure on Haitis president, who duly carved out a $3 a day minimum wage for textile companies (the U.S. minimum wage, which itself is very low, works out to $58 a day).
Haiti has about 25,000 garment workers. If you paid each of them $2 a day more, it would cost their employers $50,000 per working day, or about $12.5 million a year ... As of last year Hanes had 3,200 Haitians making t-shirts for it. Paying each of them two bucks a day more would cost it about $1.6 million a year. Hanesbrands Incorporated made $211 million on $4.3 billion in sales last year.
Read more: http://articles.businessinsider.com/2011-06-03/news/30003110_1_minimum-wage-haitians-garment-workers#ixzz1qbQF0600
Gman
(24,780 posts)This is the ultimate goal now. And they're doing a pretty damn good job.