Dateline Investigation on Supplier Sweatshops in Bangladesh on NBC Tonight
Posted on June 17, 2005 by webteam
From our friends at the National Labor Committee:
On Friday night, June 17, 8:00 p.m. (ET) NBC Dateline will air an in-depth, undercover investigation of sweatshop production in Bangladesh for major U.S. retailers like Wal-Mart. The National Labor Committee worked with NBC Dateline on this investigation.
Young women in Bangladesh are forced to work 14 hours a day, often seven days a week for wages as low as 13 cents an hour, leaving them trapped in inhuman living conditions. The workers are paid just 10 cents for every Wal-Mart shirt they sew.
If Wal-Mart and the other giant retailers would pay just 37 cents an hour, these women could climb out of misery and at least into poverty–which is their goal.
The National Labor Committee is launching a campaign calling upon Wal-Mart to pay 20 cents more per garment.
WE NEED YOUR HELP TO SPREAD THE WORD–BUILD THE CAMPAIGN–STAY INVOLVED
* Alert everyone you know–and ask them to do the same–that the NBC-Dateline undercover investigation of sweatshop production in Bangladesh for Wal-Mart will air Friday, June 17 at 8:00 p.m.
* BUILD THE CAMPAIGN: It is time to challenge Wal-Mart’s model of greed. We are calling upon Wal-Mart to pay just 20 cents more per garment, which would allow millions of women across the developing world who are sewing their garments to climb out of misery and at least into poverty.
Visit the National Labor Committee’s website www.nlcnet.org to read more and participate in the campaign.
