[Peace-discuss] Haitian Garment Workers Should Get $5 a Day

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NO !

We should demand and ONLY support a $ 7.25 PER HOUR wage rate ( U.S. Federal 
minimum wage rate ) for Haitian Garmet Workers !

If they have preferential access to U.S. markets under the Hope  II Act, 
this should be the demand.
Anything less further undermines our U.S. Standard of Living, does nothing 
to significantly improve the lives of Haitian Workers, and ONLY benefits 
global corporations and their sweatshops !



David Johnson


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From: "Robert Naiman" <naiman.uiuc at gmail.com>
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Sent: Tuesday, February 23, 2010 12:04 PM
Subject: [Peace-discuss] Haitian Garment Workers Should Get $5 a Day


> Americans want to help Haiti; Democrats control the U.S. Congress; the
> Haitian Parliament has passed legislation saying Haitian workers
> should be paid at least $5 a day; and specific legislation that
> provides preferential access to the U.S. market to garments from Haiti
> is already U.S. law. Therefore, the following policy reform ought to
> be a slam dunk: Haitian garment workers whose products receive
> preferential access to the U.S. market under the HOPE II Act ought to
> be paid at least $5 a day.
> [...]
> This is a policy that labor, aid and Haiti solidarity groups should be
> able to unite on. Labor wants to raise labor standards. Aid groups
> want trade to support development. These are two great tastes that
> would taste great together.
>
> Establishing this policy would set a good precedent. U.S.-supported
> international institutions such as the International Monetary Fund and
> the World Bank have long used their influence to obstruct government
> efforts to raise wages in countries like Haiti. But the IMF has
> recently reversed itself on other long-held dogmas - embracing capital
> controls and moderate inflation in developing countries, for example.
> If the IMF can re-think capital controls and moderate inflation, maybe
> it can re-think starvation wages.
>
> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-naiman/haitian-garment-workers-s_b_473262.html
>
> http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/2/23/123115/861
>
> http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/node/491
>
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