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Black Friday. Cartoon for Trouw.

#BlackFriday #consumerism #exploitation #sweatshops

Cartoon showing a restaurant with eager, expectant customers. Instead of dishes, waiters are carrying cardboard boxes labeled with Amazon, Temu, Alibaba and Shein logos. The waiters are coming out of a door labeled 'sweatshop'; through the open door, we see workers slaving away behind sowing machines. Through the restaurant window, we see a desolate landscape with factories. A menu on the wall reads: 'Black Friday menu: media deal, super discount, ultra-low prices'.

Today in Labor History November 16, 1932: Betsabé Espinal Espinal died. She was a Colombian labor rights activist and leader of the 1920 workers' strike against a fabric factory in Bello, Colombia, the first Colombian strike led by women. That strike was considered to have made a significant impact on the rights of female workers. The strike lasted for nearly a month and ended when the owner agreed to a 40% raise, a 9-hour work day, and to fire any male foremen accused of sexually harassing the women. Prior to the strike, girls as young as eight toiled in the factory for up to 12 hours each day. Betsabé Espinal was fired for her efforts. She died at the age of 36 from an accidental electrocution.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #colombia #women #sweatshops #union #strike

Photo of a young Betsabé Espinal, with hoop earrings and a crucifix necklace. By Anonymous - http://ail.ens.org.co/cronicas/se-cumplen-90-anos-la-primera-huelga-obreras-colombia/, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=67160378

Today in Labor History November 14, 1903: The National Women's Trade Union League formed in Boston. Their goals were to get more women unionized and to end sweat shops. They supported many of the major strikes of the 1900s-1910s and helped pave the way for the ILGWU and ACWA. They were influenced by the settlement house movement and Jane Addams. And they also fought for women’s suffrage. The WTUL played a major role in the Uprising of the 20,000, the New York City and Philadelphia shirtwaist workers' strike. They provided a strike headquarters, raised funds for soup kitchens and bail for picketers, provided legal defense for arrested picketers, marched on the picket lines, and organized marches to publicize the workers' demands.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #strike #feminism #women #SweatShops #union

WTUL float, Labor Day parade, New York, 1908. By Bain News Service - US Library of Congress http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.02144, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5955469

Sri Lanka https://labourbehindthelabel.org/next-factory-closure-wages-sri-lanka/

NEXT shuts down its only unionised factory in Sri Lanka after posting £1.08 billion profit forecast
https://cleanclothes.org/news/2025/next-shuts-down-its-only-unionised-factory-in-sri-lanka-after-posting-ps1-08-billion-profit-forecast

Asian Labour Review
https://labourreview.org/factory-closure/

INDUSTRIALL
https://www.industriall-union.org/workers-continue-to-fight-after-nexts-sri-lanka-factory-closure

#Amazon #H&M #Next #LVMH #SHEIN
#Capitalism #Garmentworkers #RichPeoplesYachtMoney #SriLanka #sweatshops

BILLIONAIRES OUT OF FASHION
Amazon - H&M - NEXT - LVMH - SHEIN

SINK THE YACHTS, RAISE THE WAGES!
on the Make Them Pay demo

20 SEPT, 12PM @Duchess St x Portland Place
Wear BLACK & WHITE. Join the Orcas!

Source https://labourbehindthelabel.org

The only thing worse than sweatshops is no sweatshops

https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/the-only-thing-worse-than-sweatshops

Poor countries have to get rich somehow. This is the tried-and-true method.

#Bangladesh #sweatshops #ExtremePoverty

https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/the-only-thing-worse-than-sweatshops

The #rich countries could always spend less on #military and more on #aid to #poor countries instead of forcing #poor in those countries to work in #sweatshops in deadly conditions. Problem solved! #redistribution

Applies to #climatechange too

#democracy #development #humanrights #justice #adaptation

www.noahpinion.blog/p/the-only-t... The #rich countries could always spend less on #military and more on #aid to #poor countries instead of forcing #poor in those countries to work in #sweatshops Applies to #climatechange #democracy #development #humanrights #justice #adaptation #redistribution

The only thing worse than swea...

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#Union finally making inroads into Italian #sweatshops, where management with links to #OrganizedCrime exploits employees with precarious #immigration status

https://www.politico.eu/article/strike-italy-textile-capital-prato-chinese-factory-migrant/

#unions #Italy #immigrants #Prato #SuddCobas #UnionStrong #strike #strikes #Tuscany #Confindustria #Confartigianato #HumanRights #capitalism #exploitation #ClassWar

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https://hartmannreport.com/p/the-great-maga-job-scam-how-trump-e24

The Great #MAGA #Job #Scam: How Trump is Plotting the New #American #Sweatshops
They say they’re “bringing back jobs,” but what they really want is a desperate, powerless workforce with no healthcare, no unions, and no future — just the way Wall Street likes it…
#ThomHartmann

..."Let’s be crystal clear about what’s really happening: Without strong unions, bringing manufacturing back to America will simply create more sweatshop opportunities where desperate workers e"...

@The_Icarian@federated.press

Let's be fair. They are hoping for the factories coming back and to be competitive on the global market the US current minimum wage is still too high.

They don't stop to think it through. They're the ones who'll be the exploited. Living in factory owned single-room-apartments in shifts, shop in the companies own store empty processed food heading for an early pauper's grave,

#GildenAge #WorkerExploitation #SweatShops #FactoryWorkers #Proletariat #WageSlaves #PropertySupremacy

#IWD2025 This International Women's Day we are highlighting the struggles that women workers face in the garment industry and point the the place strong, independent trade unions have in combating exploitation and gender-based violence.

#internationalwomensday #feminism #garmentworkers #tradeunions #ethicalfashion #gbvh #unionbusting #sweatshops #nosweat

Today in Labor History March 4, 1933: Frances Perkins became U.S. Secretary of Labor, the first female member of the United States Cabinet. As labor secretary, she helped develop the social security system in 1935. She also played an important role in the development of other New Deal programs. And in 1939, she came under fire from Congress for refusing to support the deportation of ILWU chief, Harry Bridges, who they accused of being a Communist. As a young woman, Perkins worked with Florence Kelly, a social and political organizer who fought against sweatshops and for the minimum wage, eight-hour workday and children’s rights. Kelley was a follower of Karl Marx and a friend of Friedrich Engels. Perhaps for these reasons, people accused Perkins of being a Communist, which she was not. Perkins had also volunteered at Hull House, with Jane Addams.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #feminism #womenshistorymonth #communism #harrybridges #francesperkins #florencekelly #marx #communism #janeaddams #socialsecurity #newdeal #sweatshops #ilwlu

Black and white portrait of Frances Perkins, in a hat. By Harris & Ewing, photographer - Library of CongressCatalog: https://lccn.loc.gov/2016862692Image download: https://cdn.loc.gov/service/pnp/hec/21600/21647v.jpgOriginal url: https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2016862692/, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=124547254

That's a long hashtag...

How about...

#DecentMone ? Short for
#DecentralizeMonetization ?

"But that would infer that #centralized #money is indecent."

Why yes, there is indecent money. That which stems from #exploitation ... from #softimperialism ... from #slavery.

Tell me again why it was smart to move most of western fabrication and manufacturing to where #sweatshops and #humanrightsviolations roam free?

"But think of the savings..."

That which is #unethical is also #cheap...

#Shein checks urged after refusal to answer 'basic' questions basic questions" over its supply chain.

Liam Byrne, chair of the Business and Trade Committee, wrote to Dame Julia Hoggett asking if the stock market had tests in place to "authenticate statements" by firms seeking to list, "with particular regard to their safeguards against the use of forced labour in their products".
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czxk6nnk6p9o

#FastFashion #Sweatshops