Hehehehe - they deserve support, they're actually helping the people that work them in those poor countries! its just people assume cos they're paid badly by our standards, that they're paid badly by their standards.
Yes, but it's something for professional protestors to act like they care about.
Yep. Turkish Waiters in the holiday season tend to work for 7 days, for £6 a week+food and lodgings. Then outside the season they take what they have earned, take it home, and live for the rest of the year on it.
They aren't wealthy by an means, but standard of living isn't that much worse than here, just different.
its not that at all, the large corporations could pay them so much more (ie it is actually needed) they just get away with it BECAUSE they know that they will work for so little (ie not much work about) its taking advantage big style, cruel and unfair.
Yea but they get paid shitloads more than everyone else is their country, and the other benefits (medical care, nursery etc).
In Turkey that isn't the case, and these aren't people workig for big corporations, they are people working for small family run B&Bs/Hotels/Bars/Restaurants.
The country pretty much revolves around the tourist trade, with people travelling a few thousand miles at the beginning and end of their working season.
This is especially true of younger men and women, before they do their national service. They don't want to be pulled out of a better job for over a year, then have nothing to go back to, so they leave that, and sometimes university until they have done their biot for their country, then settle down after. Those without university qualifications or a plan to gain some then go back to the tourist trade as a way of life.
I wasnt aware they had fringe benefits.
Just hope you never get old or sick, Richard.
Hey, I'm not the one complaining about sweatshops. Besides, by the time I'm old, the state pension will be utterly worthless - it already is, according to some people - and as for getting sick, if I got sick enough to need a Dr., by the time the NHS had dealt with me, I'd be dead. I'm quite happy to source my own private healthcare and pension arrangements. In fact, being self-employed, NI doesn't hit me so badly, however, when I was on PAYE, I could have bought a good pension plan and decent private care for far less than the employee and employer contributions.
There's no utopia. If we want cheap goods, we have to have them made overseas. Absolutely no reason why, since the Government provides healthcare and pensions anyway, the minimum wage could be abolished or lowered and the lower threshold of income tax raised, making it possible for people to work for a living without paying tax whilst still in receipt of benefits.
Britain still has a fixed retirement age, yet there's a pension crisis? I know of people in Canada who willingly work in their 90s - not because they have to for money, but because they're not past it and they want to work, and they can. Here, they have a cut-off age of 35 when looking for a supermarket manager!
Richard
Yup :) Past Globalisation is the topic right now in Contemporary Issues in Business, which is one of my modules :)
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