How Hillary Clinton Undercut Women in Haiti Apparel Industry

The Haiti Sentinel ^ | September 13, 2016 | Staff

[2ndDivisionVet]

Here in the United States we’re fighting for a $15/hr minimum wage. Various factors (not the least of which being inflation) make it the lowest wage that could properly be called “livable” in today’s economic climate. We’re not outrageous for making this demand, either. The current one ($7.25/hr) is, quite literally, a starvation wage. People can barely live on that, let alone families. That amounts to $58/day — which, unless you forgo food at times, is impossible to live on with rent, bills, food, and transportation. But can you imagine living on just $3 a day? A few years ago, the US State Department — with the aid of corporate interests — determined that’s enough for the people of Haiti. – Peter Coffin

How Hillary Clinton Undercut Haitian Workers

Specifically, women in Haiti’s apparel manufacturing industry…

Back in 2011, leaked cables showed us that the US Embassy aided apparel giants Levi’s and Hanes in their fight against an increase in Haiti’s minimum wage. Now, in case you’re not aware, US Embassies are an arm of the State Department, which is led by the Secretary of State.

In this case, the Department of State’s intervention regarding the minimum wage caused it to land at only $0.31/hr instead of the $0.65/hr workers were fighting for. This is less than $3/day, instead of a target of around $5/day.

Who was the Secretary of State that presided over this? Well, let’s just say this person is pretty deeply involved in The Clinton Foundation. 93% of their charitable contributions during the year 2014 actually went into The Clinton Foundation — $3m of $3.2m specifically. Good thing, too, because the Clinton Foundation has done a lot of “engagement” in Haiti. Most specifically to what we are talking about today is a focus on “sustainable growth” in “apparel/manufacturing:”(continued)

[Talisker]

Is there any atrocity on the planet she’s not at the center of?

[ConservaTeen]

Minimum wage is supposed to be for teens, who are not supposed to be supporting a family, but learning how to be RESPONSIBLE at a job.

[Prov1322]

It’s infuriating that not a day goes by that we do not learn some new scheme, scam or outright law-breaking committed by or through the Clinton Crime Family. It has almost become trite now to respond with, “If this had been a republican or conservative...”

I long for the days of an objective media in the US.

[FrdmLvr]

She is so much like the character in The Night Manager, Richard Roper, the multi-millionaire global peace advocate on the surface who turned out to be a back-stabbing global arms dealer.