WNU #1074: Sweatshop Zone Will Displace Haitian Farmers

Weekly News Update on the Americas
Issue #1074, April 3, 2011

1. Haiti: New Sweatshop Zone Will Displace Farmers
2. Mexico: Unions Protest “Labor Reform” Proposal
3. Honduras: US Blames Protesters as Repression Mounts
4. Links to alternative sources on: Latin America, Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Venezuela, El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, Mexico, Cuba, Haiti

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*1. Haiti: New Sweatshop Zone Will Displace Farmers
Sae-A Trading Co. Ltd, South Korea’s leading apparel manufacturer, is pushing ahead with plans to open a large garment assembly plant next March near the coastal village of Caracol in Haiti’s Northeast department. The firm, which supplies garments to such major US retailers as Target, Wal-Mart, Kohl’s and GAP, claims the factory will create 20,000 jobs paying at least four times the average Haitian’s share of the annual gross domestic product (GDP)--which would work out to a wage of about $8 a day for the factory workers. The operation is to include the country’s first facility for producing textiles, a knit and dyeing mill which will use some 6,000 tons of ground water a day. [...]

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