Globalizing Poverty Through The World Trade Organization
- Bangladesh, Beximco factory--Young women making Wal-mart shirts forced to work from 7:30 a.m. to 8:00 p.m., seven days a week, 87 hours a week
- Paid 9 to 20 cents and hour for 80 hours--lunch break is unpaid. And paid less than one-third the legal overtime rate
- No health care--No maternity leave
- Wal-Mart and Beximco are violating Bangladeshi labor law which sets the workweek at 48 hours and limits overtime to 12 hours a week, while also requiring overtime pay at double the standard hourly rate
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