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socrates asked in Social ScienceEconomics · 9 years ago

Does anyone else get a chill when you hear that U.S. workers have to be competitive in the global marketplace?

As I understand it, Asian factory workers can work up to 35 hours on 1 shift for 31 cents per hour. They live in the factories and work 6 or 7 days per week. More and more of them are committing or attempting suicide. Is that what we need to compete with?

Any chance we could start a competition for which nation could treat its workers the best instead of the worst?

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  • 9 years ago
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    Nope push pull production has effectively butt screwed US workers... big retailers such as wal mart want products at the lowest possible price to them so their suppliers are forced to outsource cheap, expendable labor if they want to stay in business.. simply put we're a victim of our own success

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