When your out shopping and see a really cute outfit hanging in a window, you usually go into the store and try it on. If it fits and looks cute you will probably buy it without hesitation. But, not a lot of people think of the workers who make the outfit and the conditions they work in, do they?
Well, most clothing you see has been made from a sweatshop. "From the clothing we wear to the toys our children play with, store shelves are stocked with goods made in sweatshops where workers labor in unsafe conditions and are paid wages so low they must struggle to feed and shelter their families"(AFL-CIO 2008). Also aisles we all shop down are filled with products that promote child labor and promote abuse to workers by firing and harassing workers when they try to help their selves by forming unions (AFL-CIO 2008).
Sweatshops need to be stopped. I think this is a sick practice the United States continues to be fine with and something needs to be done to stop it. The United States has opened the American marketplace to goods from other countries where hard working people are being abused. This shouldn't be allowed unless the working conditions of sweatshop workers and their wages are drastically improved. The use of sweatshops should ONLY be allowed if workers are being treated fairly and getting paid a wealthy salary. Sweatshops are being more and more overlooked each day, and this should not be happening. People need to put up a stand against the use of sweatshops.
http://www.aflcio.org/corporatewatch/stop/
