Posted on 22 July 2020. Tags: Amy Hanauer, China, IRS, ITEP, Rahima Mahmut, Slave Labor, Supply Chains, Taxes, Uyghurs
China’s leaders and wealthy elites are willing partners of global capitalism, opening up its doors, willingly, to Wal-Mart and huge multinational companies so those companies can produce trillions of dollars of stuff using cheap slave labor—in good capitalist style. Since 2017, China has been conducting a steady campaign of mass transfer of more than a […]
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Posted in Audio, Labor, Podcast, Workers
Posted on 16 October 2019. Tags: Eliot Engel, Jamaal Bowman, Oxfam, Supply Chains, Whole Foods
The running joke about Whole Foods is its nickname: Whole Paycheck. But there’s a far darker side to the touchy-feely, organic feel of Whole Foods than the higher prices—the exploitation of workers everywhere along its supply chains where workers labor in slave-like conditions, and are abused day after day, especially women workers. Oxfam is out […]
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Posted in Audio, Economy, Labor, Podcast, Politics