U.S. Fought To Lower Minimum Wage In Haiti So Hanes And Levis Would Stay Cheap This infuriated American corporations like Hanes and Levi Strauss that pay Haitians slave wages to sew their clothes. They said they would only fork over a seven-cent-an-hour increase, and they got the State Department involved. The U.S. ambassador put pressure on Haiti’s president, whom initially carved out a $3 a day minimum wage for Haitian workers. Hanesbrands Incorporated made $211 million on $4.3 billion in the year of 2010. Read more: businessinsider/wikileaks-haiti-minimum-wage-the-nation-2011-6#ixzz3BjbBdYD2
Posted on: Fri, 29 Aug 2014 00:07:19 +0000
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