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DESCRIPTION:Triangle returns: Young workers continue to die in locked 
 sweatshops\n\nPresentation by Charles Kernaghan, director of the Institute 
 for Global Labour and Human Rights\n\nLike Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire 
 in New York City on March 25, 1911, workers in the developing world 
 continue to die needlessly in sweatshops with locked exits. Just three 
 months shy of the 100th anniversary of the Triangle fire, on Dec. 14, 2010, 
 a fire broke out at the Hameem factory in Bangladesh, which was sewing 
 garments for Gap.  The emergency exits were locked on the 9th floor, 
 killing 29 workers – many of whom jumped to their deaths – and injuring 
 over 100. At Hameem, the workers toil 12 to 14 hours a day, seven days a 
 week, with just a single day off a month. The highest wage at Hameem is 28 
 cents an hour.\n\n“We can stand back and allow corporations to drive this 
 Race to the Bottom, exploiting sweatshop workers across the developing 
 world, as wages and benefits are also cut for working Americans. Or, we can 
 fight back, and hold corporations accountable to respect local labor and 
 minimum wage laws and the core internationally recognized worker rights 
 standards-no child labor, no forced labor, freedom of association, the 
 right to organize and bargain collectively. The choice is ours.”\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/05/04/18678918.php
SUMMARY:Charles Kernaghan on Sweatshops
LOCATION:Archaeological Research Facility\nUC Berkeley\n2251 College Ave., Berkeley, 
 CA\n\n
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/05/04/18678918.php
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