Sweat and Desperation

The US needs to immediately address sweatshops because of the very unfair and highly dangerous conditions. Also the fact that it is a very challenging job that has high risks of death.The treatment that they receive and the low amount of money that they get paid is not even close to the amount of credibility that they receive. Charles Davis, a writer for take part, explains how much the sweatshop workers get paid (http://www.takepart.com/article/2015/09/10/sweatshop) “Nearly two-thirds said they work overtime every day but are not paid for it, and what they are paid isn’t much: on average, $5 an hour. The minimum wage in California is $9.”(Davis) The amount that they actually get paid, for doing the dirty work for the bigger companies, they get paid $4 UNDER minimum wage. What really makes the sweatshops even worse is that, it’s not like theses companies are doing bad they have plenty of money they just rather keep it for themselves rather than giving it to the people who actually work hard. Without sweatshops there would be no products and now what will companies do to make money? So it is very unfair what they get. People who work in sweatshops are making products for the wealthy. Workers should get better treatment because they are doing all the dirty work for the big time people in the cooperation and basically making their vision of a product come true. The main solution is understanding what the workers are doing and going through. Dara O’Rourke is very passionate about listening and understanding each role and what they go to. That is what everyone should do, have an open mind. (http://nature.berkeley.edu/orourke/media/globe-op-ed.html) “Is exactly through bringing workers' voices into these debates and creating systems of transparency and accountability - what this report takes a small step toward doing - that we will be able to begin working on improving conditions in the global workplace.”(O’Rourke). There is no immediate solution to the sweatshop conditions. The only thing that we could really do is just let time happen and wait for the karma to come back on these companies with shitty condition sweatshops. It will screw them over eventually.