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 Posted: Thu 0:42, 29 Aug 2013 Post subject: Group exposes illegal sweatshop conditions in fact |
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Group exposes illegal sweatshop conditions in factories manufacturing NFL,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]
/>Women paid 10 cents to sew $80 NFL jerseys; forced to work overtime,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], cheated of wages,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], constant harassment,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], trapped in abject poverty in a Salvadoran sweatshop
Sunday Super Bowl will feature talented players,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], technicians and referees all who benefit by working under the gold standard of teamwork; collective bargaining. But there a dark underbelly to the lucrative sports industry that is as plain as the jerseys on the player backs. NFL jerseys have been sewn under illegal sweatshop conditions at the Chi Fung factory in El Salvador for at least the last four years,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], according to a new report by the National Labor Committee. Often forced to work 12-hour shifts,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], workers were at the factory 61 to 65 hours a week,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], including 12 to 15 hours of obligatory overtime,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], which was unpaid. The production goal was 255 jerseys per hour,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], which meant that each of the 28 workers in effect had to sew nine jerseys per hour,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], or one jersey every 6.6 minutes. The workers were paid just 10 cents for each $80 NFL jersey they sewed. This means that their wages amounted to just a little more than one-tenth of one percent of the jersey's retail price.
"It does not have to be this way,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]," said National Labor Committee director Charles Kernaghan. They know that walking out will not change anything as other workers are grateful for any job. This process is known as the workforce. The group says Reebok and the NFL should keep their production in Chi Fung and use their considerable power and influence to improve factory conditions."If the NFL showed half as much concern for human and worker rights as they do about the counterfeiting of their jerseys,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], this factory could be cleaned up overnight,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]," Kernaghan said. "There is not a consumer in the United States who does not believe that if the NFL and Reebok really wanted to clean up the factory,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], it would be done quickly and correctly. If great athletes like Peyton Manning would speak out,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], it would have a tremendous impact."
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