tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6155133175831479740.post4470183514570784441..comments2024-02-16T04:05:23.512-05:00Comments on Rev-elution: The meaning of shackles on my feetREV-elutionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08726120253716456109noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6155133175831479740.post-30882615960593789682012-06-21T10:53:57.564-04:002012-06-21T10:53:57.564-04:00Where are these shoes made, anyway? I'll bet ...Where are these shoes made, anyway? I'll bet at some sweatshop where the workers are slaves to horrendous conditions and slave wages. I know there is a factory in the Philippines because my wife and I visited it one on one of our trips to her home. At that time there was a strike at the factory, threats from the contractor management, round the clock picket lines, and one sign I'll never forget: "Those who make the shoes cannot buy them". In fact, “Global Wage Report 2010” of the ILO notes that workers in the Philippines are among the lowest paid in the world and wages are falling still. Repression of unions, including assassination by death squads, continues with impunity. In Indonesia, it's the same thing. There, the International Labor Rights Forum has a campaign on an Adidas contractor, here's a quote from their website: "In January 2011, the owner of PT Kizone factory fled Indonesia, and 2,800 workers and their families found themselves without the nearly half a year’s wages worth of legally-owed severance pay. adidas is the only major buyer from the factory that has refused to accept responsibility and contribute towards what the workers are owed under Indonesian law. Nearly $1.8 million is still owed to the workers, who are struggling to keep children in school and put food on the table. Check out their website, www.laborrights.org/what-you-can-do.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com