Posted on 05/15/2016 7:16:14 AM PDT by rktman
But poverty-stricken seamstresses making some of the clothes in the MAS Holdings factory in Sri Lanka earn just £4.30 a day.
It would cost them more than a months wages to buy a pair of Beyonces £100 leggings.
The workers, mostly young women from poor rural villages, can only afford to live in boarding houses and work more than 60 hours a week to make ends meet.
Most are reluctant to speak out for fear of losing their jobs.
Campaigners insist the women are being exploited and treated like slaves.
" We have to share the shower block with the men so there isnt much privacy. It is shocking and many of the women are very scared. "
(Excerpt) Read more at thesun.co.uk ...
Looks like I have a new word in my vocabulary. Just as the wife finally convinced me to stop saying far out.
If you do use it, remember it also has a second meaning...
To get struck with great force.
As in - “his car got clobbered by a freight train”.
But, but sharing a shower is so enlightened and evolved. It’s an honor.
Kinda surprised they don’t work for just room and board just so the can brag that they work for “bey”. Barf alert. Where’s gloria steinrod and the feminazis now? Crickets. Just-us right?
So, when will Beyonce receive those reparations she richly deserves for having the correct skin color?
And the other half of why I’m so adamantly opposed to it.
The first half is that it’s ruined my nation’s economy. But the fact that it is slavery without the chains (usually) and by its very nature leaves the most vulnerable people with no leverage to avoid exploitation is a pretty d@mning indictment to ‘free trade’.
TANSTAFAAL. This is what it’s costing and this is who is paying.
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