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?The sad truth is, we put ads

EmmaZahn — Wed, 02 Oct 2013 13:16:02 +0000

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“The sad truth is, we put ads in the paper and not many people show up,” said Mike Miller, Airtex’s chief executive.

They should try advertising on Pinterest, home of crafty diy-ers who make things to sell through Etsy, Facebook pages as well as their own websites complete with Google ads for supplemental income.

Let them work from home and its back to Adam Smith's user-friendly(er) version of capitalism. ;D

Being from The Big Apple I

Peter — Tue, 01 Oct 2013 21:54:38 +0000

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Being from The Big Apple I would think you know how these sweatshops operate Art. The first article states a wage scale from $9 to $17 but what they don't say is that these workers are usually paid for piecework not an hourly wage and they only pay them minimum wage until they can meet quotas. The 13% increase in pay over 5yrs is not much to brag about when you start from such low basis. These types of stories are presented to attempt to show the industrious Capitalist Class is creating good jobs while the lazy Working Class is refusing to jump at these meager offerings.

From the article: Wages for

artappraiser — Tue, 01 Oct 2013 18:35:24 +0000

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From the article:

Wages for cut-and-sew jobs, the core of the apparel industry’s remaining work force, have been rising fast — increasing 13.2 percent on an inflation-adjusted basis from 2007 to 2012, while overall private sector pay rose just 1.4 percent.

Last fall, Lifetrack, a nonprofit group in St. Paul that helps immigrants, people on welfare and those with disabilities, began screening clients for possible admission to the sewing training program. [....]

Starting wages: $12 and $16 an hour. Transportation: The college, Dunwoody College of Technology, is on a bus line, but if students interview with a company not on a bus line, Lifetrack will help them get there. After passing career-readiness tests, students could qualify for the course, which would give them a certificate in industrial sewing — and, ideally, a job.

“They want to have a career rather than packaging, assembling, cleaning jobs,” said a Lifetrack manager, Dagim Gemeda, explaining why clients were interested in the sewing certification.

This is an interesting piece

Peter — Tue, 01 Oct 2013 16:55:26 +0000

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This is an interesting piece of Corporate propaganda disguised as informational news. They can't understand why people, mostly immigrants, won't flock to take their sweatshop jobs at poverty wages. The outsourcing of this industry over the past few decades destroyed any collective power textile workers had gained and the new generation of immigrant workers don't seem to want or need to be exploited by their return. I've seen a lot of this whining by the Business Class that workers won't accept the new reality of, Third World Amerika, where working for wages that require government welfare assistance to survive is the norm.