When is the last time you got your nails done? How much did you pay? Did you tip the manicurist? If you didn't, after reading this article you surely will.
Another question..
How much did you pay for that designer bra?
To be honest, I got my nails done just last week for about $21 and I only tipped the manicurist $2. The bra that I'm wearing today, from Victoria's Secret, was about $29.
So how does all of this tie together?
As you may know, the overseas retail factories are famed to support harsh labor with little or no laws. There are poor people slaving away for literally pennies an hour for little materialistic luxuries that we Americans over pay for.
The Victoria's Secret workers toil 14 to 15 hours a day, from 7:00 a.m. to 9:00 or 10:00 p.m., seven days a week, receiving on average one day off every three or four months. All overtime is mandatory, and workers are routinely at the factory 98 to 105 hours a week while toiling 89 to 96 hours. Treatment is very rough, as managers and supervisors scream at the foreign guest workers to move faster to complete their high production goals.
Workers who fall behind on their production goals, or who make even a minor error, can be slapped and beaten. Despite being forced to work five or more overtime hours a day, the workers are routinely shortchanged on their legal overtime pay, being cheated of up to $18.48 each week in wages due them. While this might not seem like a great deal of money, to these poor workers it is the equivalent of losing three regular days' wages each week.
Workers are allowed just 3.3 minutes to sew each $14 Victoria's Secret women's bikini, for which they are paid four cents. The workers' wages amount to less than 3/10ths of one percent of the $14 retail price of the Victoria's Secret bikini
Victoria's Secret, Slave Labor And So-Called Free Trade (Huffington Post)
An Inside Look At The Spa Industry (New York Magazine)
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