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There is Phan Oem, 53, who says she clocked up to 76 hours a week producing clothing for Nike and other American brands, sometimes forced to work seven days a week. She says she feared being fired if she didn’t work through lunch breaks, on holidays and occasionally overnight. After 12 years spent packaging clothes, her base pay was the minimum wage: $204 a month.

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[–] Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago

This is why I'm for tarriffs dependent on wage, labor and environmental standards. If you're moving production to another country because they have some resource or large field of experts fair enough. If you're moving production over seas to dodge labor and environmental regulations you should pay up. It also encourages those countries to raise wage and labor standards to avoid tarriffs.

Trumps tarriffs are idiotic, tarriffs on countries with higher labor standards like Canada and the EU aren't helping anyone. The countries that do have low labor and environmental standards aren't going to raise them to avoid the tarriffs, it seems trump just wants to get them to buy more American goods to lower the trade deficit for some reason.