labor with women fixing in the philippines, Frankie McAteer

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            Throughout the world women and people that work overseas for American corporations are treated as low as a human being can be treated legally, then even sometimes it’s illegal. In this article they just got the treaty passed that will guarantee that the women and workers across seas will be treated fairly. The last place was the Philippines, which is great news for them. The Philippines had one of the worst working conditions in the world. The health conditions are awful. They have the sewage on the sides of the roads above the ground. It is about time they stepped in and started to help the women and others working for the huge American corporations in other countries.

            This treaty is a great thing. Throughout the world not just in the Philippines have tremendous problems with labor laws. The worst part about it is the fact that most of these jobs that violate that labor laws and they are from America. All these terrible jobs you hear about in the news or these jobs that give people only cents an hour to complete worker that profits thousands is mostly American. This is ridiculous considering the fact that say apple, they sell an iphone for around 500 dollars. The problem is they only spend a couple of dollars to make it so you’d think that they would lower the price since they put their company overseas to get a cheaper labor cost. No they just try and still find cheaper labor while rising the prices! These companies should be way more regulated to operate outside the U.S.

Blog #12 Frankie McAteer

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            Apple is a huge company that has huge profits, also is an international corporation. The old CEO of apple Mr. Job’s, recently passed away and the new CEO is Mr. Cook. They have had many issues with job labor in China, within the factories. The new CEO made an appearance to the factories which have never happened before in Apple. Apple has had many issues with labor in these factories from child issue’s to unsafe working conditions. These are very common in China, these factories mostly American product is the worst ones to work at. That’s the saddest part is mostly all of these labor issues around the world are from American corporations that try to rip people off more than any other country. They pretty much make these people their “legal slaves.” Well on April 2, Mr. Cooks the new CEO of Apple stated after he visited these factories that there will be significant changes in the hours these people work and their wages will also significantly rise. He states, “I was a factory worker growing up in Alabama, I was enraged when I heard of all these labor violations and the one that enraged me was when I was reported in my own factories that we have child violations. That is unacceptable to have child labor, this will never happen in Apple again! “

            This isn’t one of a total labor issue, but to me this is a great start to showing that someone out their (aka CEO) actually cares about his employee’s. The only thing that probably benefitted this matter is that he was poor and a blue collar worker in the past. He grew up working in the factories that he now owns. Most CEO’s and owners are from rich back rounds and come from never having a Blue collar job in their lives. This shows that someone though really does care; hopefully it will alter the minds of the other CEO’s in the U.S. to having better corporations to work for. This is only a small percentage of factories in China that are going to have better working conditions; there are many more there that need a desperate change.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/02/technology/apple-presses-its-suppliers-to-improve-conditions.html

Blog #11, Frankie McAteer

In this article they explain the hardships in America with Latina workers. According to the LCLAA, (Labor Council for Latin American Advancement) among all Hispanics in America the Latino’s have it the worst in the job field with being mistreated. They have been working with terrible mistreatment, they have to work overtime with no extra pay, in a lot of cases the Latino’s have been even made to work off the clock. The women even get treated worst than the men. They a lot of times get raped, but the thing is they can’t even mention it because they are illegal citizens and will be deported if they turn the guy in because they will know that she is illegal and then will be deported. Hector Sanchez the leader of the LCLAA is trying to put a lot more order in the States with Latino workers. He’s trying to break the cycle of oppression and exploitation. He states; “workers must feel free to stand up and rise against mistreatment in the workforce regardless if they are an illegal immigrant or not, they are still human beings.”

            This is a very touchy subject in America. These are human beings regardless if they are considered by our law, “illegal.” The companies that do these things to these people should be put in jail. The women are being treated as slaves, you can’t make them work 70 hrs a week and not give them their 30 hrs of overtime, that’s cruel and should not be accepted. Everyone thinks bad things about these people and that they are ruining our country, these people are just ignorant. If everyone would just sit back and look, they would realize that they came from such worst than we do. How can a group of people put up with all this mistreatment and the women getting raped and not saying anything about it just in fear of going back where they came from. Where they came from must be unimaginable to what we are custom to and we just judge them and think of them as a problem. We should except them and realize that we do have a great country compared to a lot of the world were people will put themselves through that just to stay here.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kristian-ramos/could-immigration-reform-_b_1407188.html

Labor issues in africa. Frankie McAteer

 Today in Africa labor between men and women are terrible. Men are treated very differently than women. Africa is just like Asia when it comes to families and work. Women are treated like an object instead of an actual human being. Over half of African women do not even know how to read. The worst part about is that they make children work, when they are even only 9 years old. Africa isn't the best place to grow up. The rate of wages between the men and women is dramatic. Men make over double what women make that even are aloud to work the same job as men. Most jobs in Africa men work women arent even aloud to join. They try to segregate men and womens jobs. Women hold no claim to power rolls. Men hold all of the power and pretty much inslave women. This is a major sociological problem. Women are being totally alienated from being able to make something of theirselves. Somebody should take over and try and settle things. Times have changed and its time for African culture to adapt to the new ways of the world.


http://africaknowledgelab.worldbank.org/akl/sites/africaknowledgelab.worldbank.org/files/FINAL_Gender%20Disparities%20Report_Oct%2029.pdf

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Blog #7 Labor issues with Wal-Mart

Is Wal-Mart really this corporate giant that's such a great place to work? Wal-Mart has pretty much all of the sociological problems facing the world all in one corporation. Wal-Mart has had over 200 law suits filled against it in the past 3 years alone! You hear all these great things about Wal-Mart, how they are such a great place to be and representing them is the yellow smiley face, you'd think they were a great place to be, but in reality it is a nightmare to work for the company. The average pay for an hourly employee is only 8.23 an hour, that's rediculous considering that it's the most profitable company in the world. They got busted for not paying their employees overtime pay when they deserved it. I can't believe that they can actually have the nerve to not pay thier employees. They had another law suit filed against them for sexual discrimination. A women that has been working their for over 15 years and never recieved a raise, confronted a manager about a male employee that just started working there, about him getting paid more than her. The manager replied, " God made man first, women will always finish second to men." That's trully unbelievable if your ask me. How could you actually have the ignorance or the nerve to actually say that to someone. With medicare, Wal-Mart doesn't even pay the employees enough money to even get covered for health insurance, which they tell them to seek out health insurance from other providers, like Medicare. If your ask me, Wal-Mart is a coporate giant that treats the people who run it like slaves. They are the richest company in the world and also one of the worst to work for.

http://campusprogress.org/articles/wal-marts_labor_problem

Blog, labor issues between gender inequalities

The work force today is alot better than it use to be in America between men and women. Back in the 50's and prior women were discouraged to work because the male in the house is suppose to be the main money maker and the women are the ones that stay home and take care of all the family responsibilities. As the years went on women started to get employed for cheap labor and they had less complaints and requests then men. So throughout the years women were not treated as well as men because they knew they would not complain about their salaries. Still to this day men are in all the leadership rolls, from Presidentcy to CEO's. If you even look at a school program most teachers are women, but mostly all the Principals and administrators are men. In 1999 there was an action plan set in America to try and equal men and women in the work force. Today women still only get 78 cents to a dollar compared to men. This is alot better from in the 60's when women only got around 35 cents per dollar of the man. It still doesnt equal out but to me women are going to take over. They are alot better at school and alot more deticated to there jobs than most men. There are more women in graduate school today and in Feburary of 2011 women actually hold more jobs in America then men do. All i have to say is in the next 30 years that will flip to me, men will make only 78 cents to every dollar women make. They are unstoppable, they hold their jobs along with still doing to household responsibilites. While men are becoming cowards and running away from home because they are no longer needed for the woman. To me soon America will be ran by woman, mark my word!

Blog 5 african child labor

           Today I read an article explain about child issues in Africa. I was so surprised that there are so many things that young kids are asigned to. In like other countries across the world children are used for work alone, but in Africa there is such a huge amount of things that the children are used for. One of the biggest issues facing children in Africa isn't the workforce, its children getting forced into military groups. They are making these children fight and kill people at the age of in some cases 8! There are a ton of small militia groups spread all over Africa and their main goal is to recruit when the person is very young, they then can be considered by the time they get older and if they are still alive, be conidered a true soilder. Yes there still is alot of problems that surround labor in the work force as well, also there is huge problem with Africans selling children as slaves and prostitutes.
            To me thats just insane. How in the world could you make children fight in militias when I garuntee half of them have even no clue for what they are fighting for. When I looked at China and South American countries I felt terrible when I saw children just having to deal with working underage. Why is it that they hardly ever mention African children? Clearly across the world, after reading this article, these children have it extremly worst than any other child across the world. All you ever here about is low wages and blah blah, imagine them taking your child away when they are around 7 to 8 and selling them for whatever they can get out of you or sticking an automatic machine gun in their hands and telling them to kill whoever. Thats just crazy, and im tired of  hearing about racial discrimination with men and women, or making a young 14 sew blue jeans. This problem in Africa is extremly worst than any of those situations, but you hardly never hear about those children. They need to focus their concerns on this situation.

Frankie McAteer

Blog#2, Labor issues in China.

              There are several problems in China with labor. Its finally catching up with these stingy, money hungry American corporation owners. One of the problems is nike factories in China. These companies try their hardest to find the cheapest way to make as most money as they can, whether it be making employees do alot more work than they should, or pay then close to nothing. As the cost of living increases in China the pay from these American companies does not. The Chinese who were people that never really revolted or complained are now standing up for themselves.

              The Chinese were never the type to complain or even fight back against these American Powerhouse corparations, but they finally got sick of the abuse and mistreatment. Americans brought these companies over seas which lost thousands of american jobs just so they can pay pennies compared to what they paid their employees here. The big strike back was against nike. The workers where way underpaid and they were way understaffed. After months of horrible mistreatment they finally started going to strikes and sit ins. Then nike starts to lash out and wonder why? Are you kidding me? How in the world can you sit back and make it even a thought on why. If you had any common sense you would recognize. Let one of the VP's, President, or Chair holders work on of those jobs for just one day and then they could actually relate. The Chinese have been mistreated and underpaid for way too long, now they are finally getting up and saying no more!

http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/china/labor-issues/index.html