Netters!
And to add to the sentiments of Matek and Mitayo, in some Asian countries especially Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Taiwan, Philippines...the supervisor has a special marked corridor where he or she walks up and down to keep a sharp eye on intensive production. No worker has room for any foulplay, pause, sick leave as that leads to automatic loss of employment and replacements are always waiting in the wings in huge numbers.
Each worker must live to the set target of daily prodution at a minute salary and needless to say that the bulk of them are child workers. In the case of Uganda, It would appear that the authorities have been hoodwinked to embrace the project in the hope that it would offset poverty/unimployment while at the sametime generating dollars from North America.
Omar Kezimbira
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Say Mitayo!
NRM NO... CHANGE!!!!! Say that was uncalled for language!
Ugandans are about to really see the true face of capitalism.
In some Latin American countries, ( I am sure you are aware) the supervisor
in charge in some of these sweat shop won't even let you pee!! You work 14/15
hours a day on a goddamn sawing machine with NO rest. If you are sick for a
single day, you can rest assure you have No job! well that is Globalization
all right!
Matek
In a message dated 12/2/02 4:58:54 PM Eastern Standard Time,
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<< AGOA girls complain
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To those of us who are in Uganda, and on this forum,
please keep us in touch and informed about the condition of these
girls in the sweat-shops that this Shri-Lankan is starting in Uganda.
No fucking foreign! er should be allowed to come in our country
and slap, strike our people loike we are garbage.
This is not the first complaint about these sweat-shops in Africa
let alone other parts of the world.
In Lesotho girls are paid a pittance in the same sweat-shops that is
not even enough to pay for transport to and fro.
The owners of these sweat-shops should know that quite a sizable
amount of the apparel they produce is sold here in North America
on University Campuses.
We know the system on these campuses. To shut down this end
is very easy.
Let the owners not kid themselves.
One other point. Why keep on importing Indians to compete
with our people when we have such high unemployment rates.?
It is only in Africa that there is no no protection for their workers!!
Things have got to change.
What are the MP's, especially those representing labour,
doing in Parliament?
We have to put to a st! op this nonsense where we allow our
people to be treated as scond c lass citizens in their own country!
Keep us informed on this issue.
The girls should be organized in unions and establish links with us.
Dear Assumpta we also have to organize here. These girls are going
to need help. The sweat-shop industry is not a tea-party. And it is
going to get more ugly!!
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