I am forced to work [during the shutdown] and am making slave wages — nothing.
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YOU SAID THE NIKE PRODUCT HAS BECOME SYNONYMOUS WITH SLAVE WAGES, FORCED OVERTIME AND ARBITRARY ABUSES.
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Or about illegal aliens being in kitchens working for slave wages, and they are not certainly thinking about that.
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We know, for instance, that many of these for-profit facilities force adults to perform labor for slave wages and have done so for years.
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Many of the most notorious are the very conditions that the strike seeks to alleviate: slave wages, racist sentencing practices, and lack of rehabilitative classes, among others.
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I wouldn't claim that Mexico is the bigger beneficiary of NAFTA when American consumers pay less for their goods but Mexican workers still receive slave wages. 4.
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Flint, Michigan was a prosperous city, but then what happened is corporate America said why do I want to pay somebody in Michigan a living wage when I can pay slave wages in Mexico or China?
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This is the level to which slave wages will sink a man: to the point where he has to choose between getting enough to eat and buying the one luxury that makes it a little easier to do his time.
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He told the audience that cryptocurrencies and the blockchain, the underlying technology behind bitcoin, would "empower [the populist] movement, empower companies, [and] empower governments to get away from central banks that debase your currency and makes slave wages," according to Cointelegraph.
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In this respect, "Gold," the first and longest section, is also the most satisfying: a moody conjuring of the career of Ah Ling, a houseboy employed by the California railway baron Charles Crocker and who is said to have inspired his boss's decision to hire thousands of Chinese workers to build his railroad for slave wages.
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The corporation has been involved in strike-breaking in Niger in which locals protested the destruction of the local ecosystem and the "slave wages" paid by SEMAFO. SEMAFO is also notorious for tax evasion- evading taxes of up to as much as 9.6 million dollars in Guinea.Engler, Yves. Canada in Africa: 300 Years of Aid and Exploitation.
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Peck joined a thousand people on October 24, 1971, protesting an award dinner for Governor Rockefeller, who was responsible for the decision to move in on Attica prison. A wave of prison strikes swept the nation in 1972. Prisoners at Danbury prison went on strike due to poor working conditions and slave wages. On March 2, 1972, Peck joined activists in picketing outside Danbury prison. On October 7, 1974, Peck joined 800 people outside Cooper Union to protest Gov.
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For years, he gets no response to his weekly letters until the Senate finally sends him $200, thinking Andy will stop requesting funds. Instead of ceasing his letter writing, he starts writing twice as often. His diligent work results in a major expansion of the library's collection, and he also helps a number of prisoners earn equivalency diplomas. The newest corrupt warden of Shawshank, Norton, starts a program called "Inside-Out", where convicts do work outside the prison for slave wages.
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This Brazilian state, like many others, was once strictly belonging to indigenous people of Brazil. The large-scale colonization of Rondônia happened only in the second half of the 20th century. At this time many people died from the introduction of preventable diseases to which they were not immune, and as a result, in the 1950s the Tuparí people were nearly wiped out entirely by measles. According to Caspar (1956), there were only 67 survivors of these epidemics, who were then forced to work for slave wages.
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His license to practice law in California was suspended for one year and he was placed on a probationary period for two years. Serra was released from the federal camp in February 2007, reporting immediately to a San Francisco halfway house. He was released from federal custody, and the halfway house, on March 13, 2007, after serving out his sentence. Along with three other attorneys, Serra filed a class-action lawsuit seeking minimum wages for himself and other inmates, citing slave wages as unconstitutional.
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A lawsuit was filed in July 2020 by three inmates and one former inmates against Gov. Jared Polis, the Colorado Department of Corrections and a private prison operator under Amendment A to increase wages for penal labor from USD$0.10 an hour, which the inmates described as "slave wages", to the current Colorado minimum wage (USD$12 an hour as of 2020), in addition to paid sick leave and vacation time. This is considered the first lawsuit under the amendment to seek reform of the penal labor practices in the Colorado corrections system.
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Industrialization resulted in the rise of an urban proletariat and attracted an influx of foreign capital from the United States and Great Britain. Wealth, political power and access to education were concentrated among a handful of elite landholding families, overwhelmingly of European and mixed descent. Known as hacendados, they controlled vast swaths of the country by virtue of their huge estates (for example, the Terrazas had one estate in Sonora that alone comprised more than a million acres). Most people in Mexico were landless peasants laboring on these vast estates or industrial workers toiling for little more than slave wages.
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Jimmy Kovak attends a Sydney public (State) school, and is falling behind in his studies, partly because of his love of soccer, and his part-time work producing compost from garbage he collects, and which he sells at a local hardware store. His next door neighbor has an antipathy to the Kovaks, at least partly because of their nationality, and runs a spiteful campaign against the boy, resulting in confiscation of his compost bins, and other harassment. His widowed mother is handicapped by her inability to recognize the Latin alphabet (presumably she can read Cyrillic perfectly), and is too embarrassed to seek help, so is forced to accept piece-work, sewing at slave wages. Financial relief comes in the form of Sam Stevens, who recognizes the boy's ingenuity and offers him a contract to invent a chicken feeder.
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