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" A Wikileaks post published on The Nation shows that the Obama Administration fought to keep Haitian wages at 31 cents an hour. It started when Haiti passed a law two years ago raising its minimum wage to 61 cents an hour. According to an embassy cable: 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, who duly carved out a $3 a day minimum wage for textile companies (the U.S. minimum wage, which itself is very low, works out to $58 a day). Haiti has about 25,000 garment workers. If you paid each of them $2 a day more, it would cost their employers $50,000 per working day, or about $12.5 million a year ... As of last year Hanes had 3,200 Haitians making t-shirts for it. Paying each of them two bucks a day more would cost it about $1.6 million a year. Hanesbrands Incorporated made $211 million on $4.3 billion in sales last year. Thanks to U.S. intervention, the minimum was raised only to 31 cents. " https://www.businessinsider.com/wikileaks-haiti-minimum-wag… <https://www.businessinsider.com/wikileaks-haiti-minimum-wage-the-nation-2011-6?fbclid=IwAR2djIgjcY6vzqv5rkgj7u_2b3oCvOoXrPN58DHUpx6TwPtHnoARAaaGhh0> https://abcnews.go.com/…/fobs-hillarys-state-dept-ga…/story… <https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/fobs-hillarys-state-dept-gave-special-attention-friends/story?id=42615379&fbclid=IwAR06gsuSGy0Y4jumV26-Lbhpwu4keHk1LzG2ETz1-5VVuLM-4WnArSKf5l0> https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/flashback-when-hillary-clinton-moved-to-aggressively-block-haiti-from-raising-minimum-wage-to-62-cents _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
