I went out again a few days ago and visited a second hand store and was amazed at what I found. I bought several pieces of clothing for my collage security blankie. hummmmmmmm I bought a bunch of clothes in several sizes as they had labels from all over the world. There was a LA Blue label from Bangledesh, Old Navy from Nepal, Faded Glory from Indonesia, Victoria's Secret from Korea, Foot Locker from Malaysia, and Bobbie Brooks from Guatemela along with GILDAN from Nicaragua, Haiti, and Dominican Republic......... and there were others as well.
The above stuffs moved me to the following research on Sweatshops and I'm not finished yet. It's time for lunch for me and I wanna log off for a bit and watch 'The Talk'. I watched 'The View' this morning and saw the first link being played out by Whoopi. MACY'S, indeed! ...cal
http://occupywallst.org/forum/occupying-the-thanksgiving-day-parade/
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Forum Post: Occupying the Thanksgiving Day parade?
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I walked in on my mom watching the View and heard Woopie Goldberg talking about people occupying the Thanksgiving day parade. She was going on a little mini rant about it being for the kids and it's free and doesn't cater to the 1% and I agree with it, but I haven't heard ANYTHING official about this at all. Are people really planning on doing this? I know a bunch of people want to do something for black Friday but that's about it.
http://social.macys.com/parade2010/#/home
Anti-fur protest near macy's 34th street, New York (part 3)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFdOwCneIvs
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,742950,00.html
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Cinema: Macy's v. Movies
http://social.macys.com/parade2010/#/home
Anti-fur protest near macy's 34th street, New York (part 3)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFdOwCneIvs
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,742950,00.html
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Cinema: Macy's v. Movies
http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2008/07/ny_says_queens_factory_for_gap.html
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N.Y. says Queens factory for Gap, Macy's was illegal sweatshop
Published: Wednesday, July 23, 2008, 6:12 PM Updated: Wednesday, July 23, 2008, 6:21 PM
NEW YORK -- A garment manufacturer that made clothing for Macy's, the Gap and other retailers cheated its workers out of $5.5 million in wages, state labor officials said today.
Employees at the Jin Shun Inc. factory in Queens put in 12-hour days, six or seven days a week, but weren't paid overtime or a proper minimum wage, authorities said.
Most of the employees were Chinese immigrants.
State Department of Labor Commissioner M. Patricia Smith said that besides paying "sweatshop wages," the company engaged in an illegal cover-up.
Workers kept two sets of time cards to disguise their hours, and managers coached employees to lie to investigators, she said. The company also changed its name several times, doing business most recently under the name Garlee NY Inc.
http://itunes.apple.com/us/itunes-u/eller-distinguished-speaker/id413134003
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Each year, the Eller College brings outstanding leaders from the private, government, and nonprofit sectors to Tucson for the Distinguished Speaker Series. These leaders address a variety of topics and issues that impact the business and public policy worlds. Gwen Ifill, (moderator and managing editor of Washington Week), Terry Lundgren (chairman/CEO and president of Federated Department Stores), William Conway (founding partner and managing director of The Carlyle Group), Mead Rudasill (vice president of Bath & Body Works), Leigh Steinberg (leading U.S. sports attorney)… these are just a few of the leaders who have addressed Eller students in recent years. The Eller College seeks out speakers who are diverse in thought, perspective, and leadership styles — providing Eller students and other guests with the opportunity to engage in stimulating discussion.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macy's,_Inc.
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http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Macy's
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Cincinnati, OH 45202
Phone: 513-579-7000
Fax: 513-579-7555
Web: http://www.federated-fds.com/
http://www.slideshare.net/guest3bd2a12/sweatshop-sourcing-presentation
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Misery of rag-trade slaves in America's Pacific outpost
The Guardian
David Fickling
When Thanh Nguyen was offered the chance to quit her poorly paid factory job in Vietnam and work in one of America's Pacific territories, she saw it as an easy way to a good income. Instead she found herself in a brutal sweatshop where workers were beaten and starved while they made designer clothes for the US retail giants Sears and JC Penney.
Last week a court in Washington found Thanh's Korean boss, Lee Kil-soo, guilty of human trafficking in what the US attorney general, John Ashcroft, described as "nothing less than modern-day slavery".
Lee, who will be sentenced on June 9, owned the Daewoosa Samoa factory, near American Samoa's capital, Pago Pago. It employed 251 immigrant workers from Vietnam and China in appalling conditions. Workers were paid $200 (¥126) a month for room and board, for which they received a bunk in a cramped, 36-bed dormitory and three meagre meals a day.
"We had one 2lb chicken for all the factory," says Thanh. "They gave us some potatoes as well. It was very bad food."
Pay was routinely withheld, and when workers went on strike to recover their lost earnings Daewoosa's managers switched off the electricity, making conditions in the overheated compound unbearable.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jonathan-tasini/victorias-secret-slave-la_b_74261.html
D.K. Garments is a subcontract factory with 150 foreign guest workers (135 from Bangladesh and 15 from Sri Lanka), which has been producing Victoria's Secret garments for the last year. None of the workers have been provided their necessary residency permits, without which they cannot venture outside the industrial park without fear of being stopped by the police and perhaps imprisoned for lack of proper documents.
The Victoria's Secret workers toil 14 to 15 hours a day, from 7:00 a.m. to 9:00 or 10:00 p.m., seven days a week, receiving on average one day off every three or four months. All overtime is mandatory, and workers are routinely at the factory 98 to 105 hours a week while toiling 89 to 96 hours. Treatment is very rough, as managers and supervisors scream at the foreign guest workers to move faster to complete their high production goals.
http://labornotes.org/2011/08/strike-against-hersheys-exposes-j-1-guestworker-scam
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Hershey’s student guestworkers rallied outside the plant August 17. Photo: Roman Surzhko.
Every year the U.S. State Department grades countries on human trafficking, but it would do well to look at its own J-1 visa program, which one organizer called “the ultimate captive guestworker program.”
The Summer Work Travel program for students was widely exposed when three hundred J-1 student guestworkers from China, Turkey, Ukraine and other countries walked out of a Hershey’s packing plant in Palmyra, Pennsylvania August 17.
The students demanded a refund of program fees, and said the jobs should go to local unemployed people at a living wage.
The students presented a petition to management and then marched out chanting in English and their native languages. Three Pennsylvania labor leaders blocked the door and were arrested, while Jobs with Justice put out a call for funds and solidarity, and the National Guestworker Alliance, which helped the students organize, demanded that the State Department eject the company responsible from the student guestworker program.
“Why did they bring us here?” said Harika Duygu Ozer, a medical student from Turkey. “Because they want to make profits from us instead of giving good jobs to local workers.“
http://ronkayela.com/2011/11/sweatshops----not-farms-city-h.html
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http://articles.cnn.com/2007-10-29/world/gap.labor_1_clothing-retailer-gap-child-labor-gap-kids-stores?_s=PM:WORLD
The children were producing hand-stitched blouses for the Christmas market in the United States and Europe at Gap Kids stores, according to the newspaper. The blouses were to carry a price of about $40, The Observer reported.
The Gap faced criticism for similar practices in 2000, when a BBC documentary uncovered young girls producing Gap products at a Cambodian factory. But since then, Hansen said, the company has developed comprehensive policies to prevent abuse and protect workers' rights. Hansen said violations of those policies are now "extremely rare."
She said she does not support closing any factories in India in response to the allegations because it would deprive those working in proper conditions of their income.
The Gap also operates Banana Republic and Old Navy stores. It has 3,100 stores around the world.
http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Brunswick_Group
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In July 2002 the Wall Street Journal reported that Martha Stewart had hired the Brunswick Group to massage her image in the wake of allegations that she profited from insider trading. [7]
In March 2004, the controversy over the exaggeration of the oil and gas reserves of Shell Oil resulted in the resignation of the then chairman, Philip Watts, and Walter van de Vijver, who was responsible for exploration and production. In an attempt to manage the crisis Shell hired the Brunswick Group to help it manage the crisis. "Brunswick has recently come on board, but we don't really say much more about what they do," Corrigan told PR Week. [8]
http://www.theonion.com/articles/report-everything-made-in-sweatshops,5353/
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Excerpt:Employees at the Jin Shun Inc. factory in Queens put in 12-hour days, six or seven days a week, but weren't paid overtime or a proper minimum wage, authorities said.
Most of the employees were Chinese immigrants.
State Department of Labor Commissioner M. Patricia Smith said that besides paying "sweatshop wages," the company engaged in an illegal cover-up.
Workers kept two sets of time cards to disguise their hours, and managers coached employees to lie to investigators, she said. The company also changed its name several times, doing business most recently under the name Garlee NY Inc.
http://itunes.apple.com/us/itunes-u/eller-distinguished-speaker/id413134003
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macy's,_Inc.
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http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Macy's
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Contact details
7 W. 7th St.Cincinnati, OH 45202
Phone: 513-579-7000
Fax: 513-579-7555
Web: http://www.federated-fds.com/
http://www.slideshare.net/guest3bd2a12/sweatshop-sourcing-presentation
3 of 12 pages
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Misery of rag-trade slaves in America's Pacific outpost
--Slaves Used to Make Clothes for Sears and JC Penney
The Guardian
David Fickling
When Thanh Nguyen was offered the chance to quit her poorly paid factory job in Vietnam and work in one of America's Pacific territories, she saw it as an easy way to a good income. Instead she found herself in a brutal sweatshop where workers were beaten and starved while they made designer clothes for the US retail giants Sears and JC Penney.
Last week a court in Washington found Thanh's Korean boss, Lee Kil-soo, guilty of human trafficking in what the US attorney general, John Ashcroft, described as "nothing less than modern-day slavery".
Lee, who will be sentenced on June 9, owned the Daewoosa Samoa factory, near American Samoa's capital, Pago Pago. It employed 251 immigrant workers from Vietnam and China in appalling conditions. Workers were paid $200 (¥126) a month for room and board, for which they received a bunk in a cramped, 36-bed dormitory and three meagre meals a day.
"We had one 2lb chicken for all the factory," says Thanh. "They gave us some potatoes as well. It was very bad food."
Pay was routinely withheld, and when workers went on strike to recover their lost earnings Daewoosa's managers switched off the electricity, making conditions in the overheated compound unbearable.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jonathan-tasini/victorias-secret-slave-la_b_74261.html
Victoria's Secret, Slave Labor And So-Called "Free Trade"
Excerpt:D.K. Garments is a subcontract factory with 150 foreign guest workers (135 from Bangladesh and 15 from Sri Lanka), which has been producing Victoria's Secret garments for the last year. None of the workers have been provided their necessary residency permits, without which they cannot venture outside the industrial park without fear of being stopped by the police and perhaps imprisoned for lack of proper documents.
The Victoria's Secret workers toil 14 to 15 hours a day, from 7:00 a.m. to 9:00 or 10:00 p.m., seven days a week, receiving on average one day off every three or four months. All overtime is mandatory, and workers are routinely at the factory 98 to 105 hours a week while toiling 89 to 96 hours. Treatment is very rough, as managers and supervisors scream at the foreign guest workers to move faster to complete their high production goals.
http://labornotes.org/2011/08/strike-against-hersheys-exposes-j-1-guestworker-scam
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Hershey’s Walkout Exposes J-1 Guestworker Scam
Jenny Brown
| August 25, 2011
Hershey’s student guestworkers rallied outside the plant August 17. Photo: Roman Surzhko. Every year the U.S. State Department grades countries on human trafficking, but it would do well to look at its own J-1 visa program, which one organizer called “the ultimate captive guestworker program.”
The Summer Work Travel program for students was widely exposed when three hundred J-1 student guestworkers from China, Turkey, Ukraine and other countries walked out of a Hershey’s packing plant in Palmyra, Pennsylvania August 17.
The students demanded a refund of program fees, and said the jobs should go to local unemployed people at a living wage.
The students presented a petition to management and then marched out chanting in English and their native languages. Three Pennsylvania labor leaders blocked the door and were arrested, while Jobs with Justice put out a call for funds and solidarity, and the National Guestworker Alliance, which helped the students organize, demanded that the State Department eject the company responsible from the student guestworker program.
“Why did they bring us here?” said Harika Duygu Ozer, a medical student from Turkey. “Because they want to make profits from us instead of giving good jobs to local workers.“
http://ronkayela.com/2011/11/sweatshops----not-farms-city-h.html
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http://articles.cnn.com/2007-10-29/world/gap.labor_1_clothing-retailer-gap-child-labor-gap-kids-stores?_s=PM:WORLD
Gap: Report of kids' sweatshop 'deeply disturbing'
Excerpt:The children were producing hand-stitched blouses for the Christmas market in the United States and Europe at Gap Kids stores, according to the newspaper. The blouses were to carry a price of about $40, The Observer reported.
The Gap faced criticism for similar practices in 2000, when a BBC documentary uncovered young girls producing Gap products at a Cambodian factory. But since then, Hansen said, the company has developed comprehensive policies to prevent abuse and protect workers' rights. Hansen said violations of those policies are now "extremely rare."
She said she does not support closing any factories in India in response to the allegations because it would deprive those working in proper conditions of their income.
The Gap also operates Banana Republic and Old Navy stores. It has 3,100 stores around the world.
http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Brunswick_Group
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In July 2002 the Wall Street Journal reported that Martha Stewart had hired the Brunswick Group to massage her image in the wake of allegations that she profited from insider trading. [7]
In March 2004, the controversy over the exaggeration of the oil and gas reserves of Shell Oil resulted in the resignation of the then chairman, Philip Watts, and Walter van de Vijver, who was responsible for exploration and production. In an attempt to manage the crisis Shell hired the Brunswick Group to help it manage the crisis. "Brunswick has recently come on board, but we don't really say much more about what they do," Corrigan told PR Week. [8]
http://www.theonion.com/articles/report-everything-made-in-sweatshops,5353/
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Report: Everything Made In Sweatshops
http://www.globalcorpforum.org/en/node/132On June 25, Russell Corporation became the first collegiate licensee ever to be placed on probation by the Fair Labor Association, over persistent worker rights abuses in Honduras. Despite the FLA's reputation for refusing to take strong stances with its member companies, the corporate-controlled monitoring body ruled Russell continues to violate university labor codes of conduct. Russell had relied on the FLA to stall and excuse its labor violations since United Students Against Sweatshops first raised concerns in 2007. The only other company ever placed on FLA probation is Canada-based Gildan.
The news, in conjuction with startling reports of new violations by Russell in Honduras, sparked a new wave of action by universities tired of Russell's disregard for workers rights. At least 6 universities have ended the licensing agreements with Russell since the FLA decision, launching the total number of schools over 80. The new contract cuts include University of Delaware, University of New Hampshire, Carnegie Mellon University, DePaul University, St. John's University and Denison University.
This absolutely unprecedented collegiate boycott over worker rights speaks to a major resurgence in student activism. Chapters of United Students Against Sweatshops across North America have focused on the Honduran garment workers' union campaign for nearly two years, demanding that their schools pull business away from Russell Corporation for its repeated illegal violations of workers' freedom of association.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flagship
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Over the years the term "flagship" has been borrowed in metaphoric form by industries such as broadcasting, automobiles, education, and retailing to refer to their highest profile or most expensive products and outlets.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Brands
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Russell Brands, LLC, headquartered in Bowling Green, KY, is a manufacturer of sports equipment, which markets its products under many brands and subsidiaries, including Russell Athletic (its flagship brand), Spalding, Huffy, and Brooks, amongst others.
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Formerly a publicly traded company, Russell Brands has been a wholly owned subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway since 2006.
| Type | Subsidiary of Fruit of the Loom |
|---|---|
| Industry | Sporting goods |
| Founded | 1973 as Russell Corporation in Alexander City, Alabama [1] [2] |
| Headquarters | Bowling Green, KY, USA |
| Area served | Worldwide |
| Products | Clothing, athletic shoes, sports equipment, accessories |
| Revenue | $1.438 billion [3] |
| Employees | 10,000 [3] |
| Parent | Berkshire Hathaway |
| Website | http://www.russell-brands.com/ |
http://motherjones.com/politics/1998/09/made-over-there
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Made Over There
Behind Wal-Mart's bogus BUY AMERICAN image hides the truth: The vast majority of its garments are foreign-made
Mon Sep. 14, 1998 11:00 PM PDT
A surprising number of native Arkansans have made the transition from hillbilly to national icon by virtue of their patriotism. No, we're not referring to the McDougals, Paula Jones, or even Bill Clinton. We're talking about the late billionaire Sam Walton and his scions who -- with a line of discount products, a pinch of aggressive expansionism, and a dash of old-fashioned nationalism -- have managed to drive nearly every mom and pop who owned a store from Portland, Ore., to Portland, Maine out of business and into poorly made blue vests -- shilling for the very company that shut them down. "Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel." -- Samuel Johnson
Wal-Mart, perhaps sensing the resentment of small-town communities forever altered by the retail colossus, has attempted to maintain an aw-shucks hometown image, despite the fact that its founder was at one time the wealthiest man in the United States. This PR effort, thwarting the anger of displaced merchants everywhere, is based on Wal-Mart's American-made image, showcasing product lines such as "Faded Glory" and slogans like "Made Right Here," "Support American Made," and "Bring It Home to the U.S.A."
"Advertising is legalized lying." -- H.G. Wells
The reality of the situation is quite different. According to a study released last month by Food and Allied Service Trades Department, AFL-CIO (FAST), and the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW), of 895 apparel products selected in Wal-Mart stores in Virginia, only 20 percent were actually made in the good old U.S. of A.
Even that number is a bit misleading, because some of the clothing Wal-Mart sells is made by third-party vendors. When it came to clothes manufactured by Wal-Mart itself, only 2 percent were made stateside.
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| Both these Garanimals sweatshirts cost $7. The left one was made in the U.S., the right one in El Salvador. |
The ugliest example of this deception is the Wal-Mart "Faded Glory" line. This cheesy store brand is tailor-made (well, mass-produced) to play to the jingoistic sentiments of middle Americans from coast to coast, or at least the Deep South and Midwest. With ad copy that reads, "Fits the way America lives" (we assume that means pretty loosely), the Faded Glory line must be made in the U.S., right? Wrong. Only 5 percent of the Faded Glory products sampled were American-made; 95 percent hailed from sweatshop nations like Bangladesh, China, Indonesia, and Mexico.
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