Sweatshop Labor

[indago]

Youkyung Lee Wrote for The Associated Press 10 August 2016:
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An Associated Press investigation has found South Korean authorities have repeatedly withheld from workers and their bereaved families crucial information about chemicals they were exposed to at Samsung's computer chip and liquid crystal display factories. Sick workers need access to such data through the government or the courts to apply for workers' compensation from the state. Without it, government officials commonly reject their cases.

In at least six cases involving 10 workers, the justification for withholding the information was trade secrets.

...Samsung is by far South Korea's biggest company, with about 100,000 workers. It has dominated memory-chip makers since the early 1990s, but that success involves use of toxic and often carcinogenic chemicals such as arsenic, acetone, methane, sulfuric acid and heavy metals such as lead, well-known risks in the production of semiconductors, mobile phones and LCDs.
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"A worker-safety group has documented more than 200 cases of serious illnesses including leukemia, lupus, lymphoma and multiple sclerosis among former Samsung semiconductor and LCD workers. Seventy-six have died, most in their 20s and 30s."

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This must be that "comparative advantage" that some jerks have babbled about, where companies in one country can use "sweatshop" labor in their economic system, and in another economic system in another country they cannot.

 

[Dekster]

A lot of well paid American workers have died from workplace hazards/chemical exposure. The amount they get paid isn't the issue.

 

[Muhammed]

Secretary Clinton joined in too: She hired Collier’s research partner in Haiti, Soros Economic Development Fund consultant Jean-Louis Warnhoz, as a senior adviser. She and her key aide Cheryl Mills negotiated an agreement between the Haitian and U.S. governments, multilateral financiers and the South Korean textile giant Sae-A Trading Co. Ltd., which makes clothes for Old Navy, Walmart, Kohl’s, Target and other retailers. The Haitian government provided the land. To create a “plug and play” environment in a country lacking nearly all basic services, IADB and USAID invested millions in roads, water systems, a power plant, executive dormitories and the warehouse-like “shells” that would house the factories. The Clinton Foundation “helped to promote Caracol as an investment destination and worked … to attract new tenants and investments to the park,” says Greg Milne, the foundation’s director of Haiti programs.

In October 2012, Hillary and Bill Clinton flew down to join President Martelly at the ribbon-cutting, where she pledged, “Our partnership, I promise you, will extend far beyond my time as secretary of state. And so, too, will the personal commitment that my husband and I have to Haiti.”


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So in a nutshell, Bill and Hillary Clinton facilitated the opening of sweatshops in Haiti to the huge benefit of Wal-Mart. Hillary Clinton worked to prevent the Haitian minimum wage from being increased from 20 something cents/hour to 60 something cents/hour and Crooked Hillary and Bubba got rich.

And in an obvious quid-pro-quo, Alice Walton donated $353,400 to Hillary's campaign. The Hillary Victory fund.


They don't call her Crooked Hillary for no fucking reason!

 

[Uncensored2008]

Youkyung Lee Wrote for The Associated Press 10 August 2016:
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An Associated Press investigation has found South Korean authorities have repeatedly withheld from workers and their bereaved families crucial information about chemicals they were exposed to at Samsung's computer chip and liquid crystal display factories. Sick workers need access to such data through the government or the courts to apply for workers' compensation from the state. Without it, government officials commonly reject their cases.

In at least six cases involving 10 workers, the justification for withholding the information was trade secrets.

...Samsung is by far South Korea's biggest company, with about 100,000 workers. It has dominated memory-chip makers since the early 1990s, but that success involves use of toxic and often carcinogenic chemicals such as arsenic, acetone, methane, sulfuric acid and heavy metals such as lead, well-known risks in the production of semiconductors, mobile phones and LCDs.
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"A worker-safety group has documented more than 200 cases of serious illnesses including leukemia, lupus, lymphoma and multiple sclerosis among former Samsung semiconductor and LCD workers. Seventy-six have died, most in their 20s and 30s."

article


This must be that "comparative advantage" that some jerks have babbled about, where companies in one country can use "sweatshop" labor in their economic system, and in another economic system in another country they cannot.

All PCB and IC manufacturing involves Arsenic. Always has.