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Baseball assailed for using sweatshops
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ^
| Saturday, October 16, 2004
| Diana Nelson Jones
Posted on 10/16/2004 12:53:31 PM PDT by Willie Green
A champion of sweatshop workers in the developing world, Kenneth Miller has spent the past three baseball seasons rattling consumers' consciences outside PNC Park.
Those bobblehead dolls the fans clamor for, and a variety of other sports-related gee-gaws and apparel, are made in overseas sweatshops, according to Miller and other workers' advocates, including the National Labor Committee.
The Pirates don't decide which factories will make the merchandise it sells. Major League Baseball hires companies to produce it for 30 teams. Those companies, such as Nike, New Era and Rawlings, contract with factories.
(Excerpt) Read more at post-gazette.com ...
TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: baseball; bobblehead; mlb; sportspork; sweatshops
It's bad enough that MLB owners get billions in taxpayer subsidies to build their stadia.
Now they're also using slave labor to produce those chintzy trinkets they sell at inflated prices.
To: martin_fierro
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posted on
10/16/2004 12:54:14 PM PDT
by
Willie Green
(Hawkins/Tonnelson in 2004!!!)
To: Willie Green
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posted on
10/16/2004 12:54:21 PM PDT
by
dakine
To: Willie Green
What next, players are going to start using steroids...oh, wait...
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posted on
10/16/2004 12:55:08 PM PDT
by
IllumiNaughtyByNature
("How do I know people are praying for me? I can just feel it." - Pres. GW Bush 10/13/04)
To: Willie Green
This is an outrage! We should all pray that the St. Luis Cardinals lose this afternoon.
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posted on
10/16/2004 12:55:42 PM PDT
by
bayourod
(You were had, Ted.)
To: dakine
Ban franchising in baseball and all other industries.
Make the owners compete independently in a truely open and free market!
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posted on
10/16/2004 1:05:56 PM PDT
by
Willie Green
(Hawkins/Tonnelson in 2004!!!)
To: bayourod
This is an outrage! We should all pray that the St. Luis Cardinals lose this afternoon. A pox upon you. :-)
Roughly, a 'sweatshop' is any company that the Unions don't have under their thumbs.
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posted on
10/16/2004 1:08:09 PM PDT
by
atomicpossum
(If there are two Americas, John Edwards isn't qualified to lead either of them.©)
To: Willie Green
Wondering too: It seems that 30% or more of MLB players are not American born, do these players have work visas, or does the MLB owners hire them illegally with respect to US labor law? Multi million dollar salaries are definitely jobs that Americans would be glad to do!
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posted on
10/16/2004 1:15:28 PM PDT
by
seastay
To: Willie Green
A champion of sweatshop workers in the developing world, Kenneth Miller has spent the past three baseball seasons rattling consumers' consciences outside PNC Park.
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Okay, a few questions: |
- Uh...a "champion"??? By whose determination?
- "Kenneth" apparently has the time and means to spend three seasons annoying people. On whose dime?
- As a baseball fan, I have some experience going to the ballpark (albeit a Phillies fan), and I can't imagine any consumer's conscience being rattled by a dingbat like Kenneth. In fact, I can imagine Kenneth's skull being rattled by fans entering the ballpark (again, I base my experience on being a Philly sports fan).
- Is there a picture of ol' Kenneth available?
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posted on
10/16/2004 1:34:18 PM PDT
by
Fintan
(Oh...Am I supposed to read the article???)
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