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  Posted By: CuriousAndrew @ 03/27/2008 1:18:57 PM

  Is this article serious!?!?! You're telling me that transnational corporations are employing tactics like sweat shops and slave labor!?!?!? This changes everything... ... Good article, but this has been going on for quite some time, and I sure don't see the parking lots at WalMart growing any thinner... People just don't seem to care as long as they can go to the store and buy what they want... ... lead paint and all... ... If only there was a way to buy goods produced in a country with labor, wage, and environmental laws... ways that benefited economies and corporations that valued the labor of its employees without exploiting people or resources... ... ; > p Or we could just all learn to speak Chinese (Mandarin, of course)

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  Posted By: davidcadut @ 03/24/2008 6:05:26 AM

  i would just like to point out that not only in asia does labor practices like that are made. even here in the UK they issue work permits and they dont allow you whasoever to transfer or have additional job. we are like tied to one job and no benefits they call it no recourse to public funds. the taxes are the same with residents. so even in first world countries they allow immoral labor practices

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  Posted By: davidcadut @ 03/24/2008 6:01:14 AM

  this is a good article, i would just like to add that it is not only in asia. even here in the UK they issue work permits and not allowed to transfer to another job or employer. we are like being held hostage by the employer. we do the hardest work even if we have the same job description with the whites. so it is everywhere not only in asia but in the first world also