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    Default Despicable Trump Pays Workers SLAVE WAGES

    Trump pays workers SO LITTLE...


    Indonesian workers who make Ivanka Trump’s fashion line are too poor to live with their own children


    Workers who make Ivanka Trump’s clothing line at a factory in Indonesia endure degrading conditions for “poverty wages” — or, in other words, typical circumstances in their part of the world.

    More than a dozen workers at the fashion label’s factory in Subang complained about one of the lowest minimum wages in Asia, along with impossible production targets, intimidation and verbal abuse, reported The Guardian.

    The workers are actually paid less there than at a factory in China where labor activists were arrested last week while investigating possible abuses.

    PT Buma Apparel Industry, a Korean-owned company, operates the factory in Subang, West Java, that supplies G-III Apparel Group, the wholesale manufacturer for Trump’s clothing and other fashion brands.

    “Sure I’m proud to make clothes for a well-known brand,” said one worker, identified as Fadli. “But because I see the price tags, I have to wonder, can’t they pay us a bit more?”

    The mostly Muslim workers there are aware of who Trump is, and they aren’t fans of her father’s presidency.

    “We don’t like Donald Trump’s policies,” said one worker, identified as Ahmad. “But we’re not in a position to make employment decisions based on our principles.”

    Ahmad and his wife, Alia, live in two rooms at a boarding house they rent for $30 a month, hours away from their children, who live with their grandmother and visit their parents about one weekend a month.

    Alia makes about $173 a month, the legal minimum wage in her province — which is the lowest rate in all of Indonesia and about 40 percent less than her Chinese counterparts.

    Workers are expected to make between 58 and 92 garments every half hour, between 7 a.m. and 4 p.m. — although the company frequently underreports actual production by nearly half — and managers verbally abuse them as “animals, moron and monkey.”

    About 200 of the more than 2,700 workers at the Buma factory are unionized, and non-union workers are often forced to work overtime to make up production shortfalls their managers say they missed during regular hours.

    The company also has a pattern of firing employees ahead of Ramadan and rehiring them later to avoid paying a religious holiday bonus under Indonesian law, the newspaper reported.

    Women who are permanent employees get three months of paid maternity leave, as well as mandatory federal health insurance and a $10.50 monthly bonus if they don’t take a day off for menstruation.

    About three-quarters of Buma’s workers are women, and they devote almost all their income to children they can’t afford to live with.

    Those conditions are fairly typical for Indonesia and Malaysia, according to labor experts.

    Alia, who hopes to one day get out from under crushing debt and rejoin her children, burst out laughing when a reporter explained the basic premise of Ivanka Trump’s new book on working women.

    Her idea of work-life balance, according to The Guardian, would be seeing her children more than once a month, assuming they can afford gasoline.

    http://www.rawstory.com/2017/06/indo...-own-children/
    What kind of country have we become?

    One in which federal prosecutors can take “evidence” before a “grand jury,”

    and that grand jury can “vote to indict” a former president for 91 alleged “crimes”?

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    slaves did not have wages.

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    or, in other words, typical circumstances in their part of the world.

    lol
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    o.O "$10.50 monthly bonus if they don’t take a day off for menstruation."

    wow is this a thing for other countries? Do we have this in the US?
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    Quote Originally Posted by tsuke View Post
    or, in other words, typical circumstances in their part of the world.

    lol
    Way to exploit that, ivanka. Way to laugh about it,tsuke.

    I hope she chokes on a champagne ice cube.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Micawber View Post
    Way to exploit that, ivanka. Way to laugh about it,tsuke.

    I hope she chokes on a champagne ice cube.
    if they werent cheap the factory wouldnt be there. Interesting that it is about half the price of china
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    notice how they dont specify the number of children. Guess how many? If your living in crushing poverty and still want to have more children (like more than 1) you dont get to complain.
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    Did anyone expect the right-wing shitbag Trumptard scum to express even the slightest speck of empathy for these people?

    Of course not.
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    C'MON MAN!!!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by tsuke View Post
    notice how they dont specify the number of children. Guess how many? If your living in crushing poverty and still want to have more children (like more than 1) you dont get to complain.
    The reason why people in third world countries have lots of children is because they know from centuries of experience that statistically, in order to increase the chances of having one or two offspring still alive to care for them in their old age, they have to bear several. They know most of their children will be dead from starvation, disease, murder or fatal accident likely from some unsafe working condition at a relatively young age, long before the parents get old and need caring for.

    You right-wingers should really try to educate yourselves before you open your mouths and expose yourselves as the horse's asses you are.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Nomad View Post
    Did anyone expect the right-wing shitbag Trumptard scum to express even the slightest speck of empathy for these people?

    Of course not.
    i emphatize in wanting more money : ) i want more money too
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    Quote Originally Posted by tsuke View Post
    i emphatize in wanting more money : ) i want more money too
    Burger King not paying you enough?

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    Quote Originally Posted by ZappasGuitar View Post
    Trump pays workers SO LITTLE...
    So why don't they quit and find another job? or go on strike? Is Trump colluding with the Indonesia gubmint to force them to work for him now? Investigate! Impeach!

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    Quote Originally Posted by aloysious View Post
    So why don't they quit and find another job? or go on strike? Is Trump colluding with the Indonesia gubmint to force them to work for him now? Investigate! Impeach!
    Or join the union (which does not pay any better over there). There are 200 in that factory according to the article. It is not up to the client to ensure fair pay, that is the responsibility of the Korean owned company.

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    I remember years ago Kathy Lee Gifford had a similar situation in Honduras. The forces of pay scale shamed her into closing it down. All the girls who worked there lost their jobs and were forced into prostitution.

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    Quote Originally Posted by zymurgy View Post
    slaves did not have wages.
    One Trumpkin supports the despicable actions of the Trumps...
    What kind of country have we become?

    One in which federal prosecutors can take “evidence” before a “grand jury,”

    and that grand jury can “vote to indict” a former president for 91 alleged “crimes”?

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