American Companies Behaving Badly

           The Institute for Global Labor and Human Rights released a report in June that showed major American companies had been purchasing clothes that were made in factories in Jordan that abused their workers.  The factories did things such as beating workers, nor complying with contracts, and forced them to live in unsanitary conditions.  I want to be clear that the American companies were not doing this, but they were buying clothing from factories that were.  The American companies buying the clothing were Target, Macy's, Kohls, Hanes, and Target according to this report.  The American government and United Nations are investigating.

        If this is true, this is disgusting.  Companies should first and foremost be moral.  Profit motive comes second to that.  Workers should be treated fairly.  People have a right to fair working conditions, and to be paid a living wage that will allow them to NOT live in poverty and save for their retirement.  There is no reason this should not happen, with corporate profits in the millions and sometimes even billions.  Unions need to come back strong in the United States and all of our standards of living will improve.