East European Shoe Factories Often Pay Below Minimum Wage, Says New Report

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <h4 style="text-align: left;"> </h4> <h4> <span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Exploitation of workers in Eastern Europe is big crime that governments allow it!</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Shoes labeled "Made in Europe" are often assembled in poor East European countries for 'starvation wages' according to a <a href="https://www.bernedeclaration.ch/media/press-release/shoes_made_in_europefor_starvation_wages/">new research report </a>from the <a href="http://labourbehindthelabel.org/campaigns/shoes/">Change Your Shoes</a> campaign. The companies whose labor practices were examined include Ara, Bata, Deichmann, Geox, Leder & Schuh AG, Lowa and Zara.</span></span></h4> <h4> <img alt="Image result for makedonija konfekciski rabotnici" height="320" src="http://kanal8.mk/images/stories/vesti/vesti4/konfekciski_rabotnici.JPG" width="400"></h4></div>

East European Shoe Factories Often Pay Below Minimum Wage, Says New Report

Exploitation of workers in Eastern Europe is big crime that governments allow it! Shoes labeled "Made in Europe" are often ass...

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California Raises Minimum Wage to $15

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <h4 style="text-align: left;"> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: normal;"><br></span></div> <br> <span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After a long fight a victory has been achieved by low wage workers in fast food restaurants.</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This time in California the activists and workers fighting for a $15 minimum wage just secured their biggest victory to date.</span></span><br> <span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Starting in 2017, California will gradually begin raising the statewide minimum wage to $15, marking a huge victory for the populist workers’ movement that began four years ago.</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This also will mean that more workers from those companies will be fired because companies just like the profit and some of them can't give 15$ to as many workers as they have today. Companies will be closed and moving to a places where the minimum wages are lower.</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br></span></span><img src="http://www.gannett-cdn.com/-mm-/75a16e87e70a76e4eb9941cc71f077faa3304eb4/c=165-0-2736-1933&r=x404&c=534x401/local/-/media/2016/03/28/USATODAY/USATODAY/635947742178799443-AP-Fast-Food-Protests.jpg"><br> <script async="" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script> <ins class="adsbygoogle" data-ad-client="ca-pub-6026372270824782" data-ad-slot="1142052758" style="display: inline-block; height: 250px; width: 300px;"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script> <script async="" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script> <ins class="adsbygoogle" data-ad-client="ca-pub-6026372270824782" data-ad-slot="1142052758" style="display: inline-block; height: 250px; width: 300px;"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script> </h4></div>

California Raises Minimum Wage to $15

After a long fight a victory has been achieved by low wage workers in fast food restaurants. This time in California the activists and ...

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