Martin & Jones Blog

The National Labor Committee ("NLC"), reports that transnational corporations roam the world to find the cheapest and most vulnerable workers.  They're mostly young women in poor countries like China, India, Bangladesh, Vietnam, Indonesia, Nicaragua, and many other countries working up to 14 or more hours a day for sub-poverty wages under horrific conditions.

While the Department of Labor estimates that 22,000 of the nation's sweatshops are located in places like New York, California, Dallas, Miami, and Atlanta, the wages are at sub-poverty levels and regulatory enforcement is lax or absent.   Employees, for fear of retaliation or termination, typically endure long hours and unsafe working conditions.

Likewise, millions of farmworkers find themselves in similar working conditions.  They are paid sub-poverty wages, no overtime wages,  receive no benefits, and they live in abominable conditions.  Workers living in Florida, Texas, California, Washington, and North Carolina are most susceptible to such exploitation due to a lack of enforcement or redress.