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Ivanka Trump Praises Working Women in Asia, but Her Chinese Factory Workers Are Abused

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Ivanka Trump Praises Working Women in Asia, but Her Chinese Factory Workers Are Abused


BY CHRIS RIOTTA ON 11/2/17

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Making Ivanka Trump shoes at a Chinese-owned facility in Ethiopia

A coalition of human rights groups and labor organizations demanded that Ivanka Trump, while she is on her first trip to Asia as a White House adviser, address issues related to alleged abuses of the mostly female workers at factories her fashion brand uses across the region. More than 20 groups, including Public Citizen, China Labor Watch and the International Labor Rights Forum, called on Trump to use her position in government "as a bully pulpit to raise standards for workers in the United States and around the globe, especially those that make clothing bearing your name." International Labor Rights Forum told Newsweek Trump is "making money off the abuses that these women are suffering," noting the government official "has a responsibility to ensure that these abuses aren't done in her name." A Washington Post investigation in July discovered workers at Chinese factories used by the Ivanka Trump brand faced 18-hour workdays and abuse from their managers, allegations that were denied.

Trump has not addressed the continued accusations of abuse at her fashion brand's factories. Trump continues to profit from her fashion-accessory business even while making women's issues one of her core responsibilities in the White House, which has alarmed government watchdogs and lawmakers alike. The labor and human rights groups did state five demands of Trump as she arrived in Japan on Thursday morning. Those included calling on her company to "allow independent workers’ rights organizations to monitor working conditions and talk to workers about their labor rights," as well as working to ensure the "fair treatment of the workers who make Ivanka Trump-branded products." Representatives for Ivanka Trump did not respond to requests for comment.

The White House spokeswoman for women's issues?

Make America Great Again? (as her products are made in China, Vietnam, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Ethiopia)

She's as big a hypocrite as Daddy.

Related: Workers From Factory Making Ivanka Trump Shoes Tell of Long Hours, Low Pay, Abuse
 
Isn't that the whole point of companies moving overseas? They get to underpay and abuse workers. It's good for the wallet.
 
Isn't that the whole point of companies moving overseas? They get to underpay and abuse workers. It's good for the wallet.

We as a society are all complicit in this.

The vast majority of us would simply rather not know where our cheap goods come from, how and who they’re made by.
 
We as a society are all complicit in this.

The vast majority of us would simply rather not know where our cheap goods come from, how and who they’re made by.

In a sense you're correct that we happily enjoy the cost savings that comes from the abuse.

But i would gladly pay more money for my products to reduce the abuse of the employers, i simply don't have any option to do so. Even the more expensive options tend to funnel larger profits of the executives, rather than preventing worker abuse. It's fundamentally a lack of competition.
 
Ivanka Trump Praises Working Women in Asia, but Her Chinese Factory Workers Are Abused




The White House spokeswoman for women's issues?

Make America Great Again? (as her products are made in China, Vietnam, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Ethiopia)

She's as big a hypocrite as Daddy.

Related: Workers From Factory Making Ivanka Trump Shoes Tell of Long Hours, Low Pay, Abuse

It is a fact. No Liberal in the world uses low skilled under paid employees anywhere for any reason.

Liberals are pure as white snow and morally better in every way...
 
In a sense you're correct that we happily enjoy the cost savings that comes from the abuse.

But i would gladly pay more money for my products to reduce the abuse of the employers, i simply don't have any option to do so. Even the more expensive options tend to funnel larger profits of the executives, rather than preventing worker abuse. It's fundamentally a lack of competition.

There are mom and pop stores everywhere... all you have to do is try.
 
It is a fact. No Liberal in the world uses low skilled under paid employees anywhere for any reason.

Liberals are pure as white snow and morally better in every way...

No Liberal currently occupies the WH nor has a millionaire daughter that pretends to be a WH adviser for third-world women's issues.

Trump publicly lectured Carrier and Ford, but not a word about his own global empire. How convenient.

Trump and his daughter Ivanka's products are all made overseas in third-world unregulated sweatshops.

And yet we still have dopes making excuses for this MAGA hypocrisy. Go figure.

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In a sense you're correct that we happily enjoy the cost savings that comes from the abuse.

But i would gladly pay more money for my products to reduce the abuse of the employers, i simply don't have any option to do so. Even the more expensive options tend to funnel larger profits of the executives, rather than preventing worker abuse. It's fundamentally a lack of competition.

Many people don't have the option due to the limitations of their own salaries. Unfortunately it becomes a vicious cycle where the Americans that struggle the most have to keep the wheel turning by necessity. It's a pretty cruel thing to think about.
 
No Liberal currently occupies the WH nor has a millionaire daughter that pretends to be a WH adviser for third-world women's issues.

Trump publicly lectured Carrier and Ford, but not a word about his own global empire. How convenient.

Trump and his daughter Ivanka's products are all made overseas in third-world unregulated sweatshops.

And yet we still have dopes making excuses for this MAGA hypocrisy. Go figure.

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I know. Liberals are awesome and so virtuous...
 
Ivanka Trump Praises Working Women in Asia, but Her Chinese Factory Workers Are Abused




The White House spokeswoman for women's issues?

Make America Great Again? (as her products are made in China, Vietnam, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Ethiopia)

She's as big a hypocrite as Daddy.

Related: Workers From Factory Making Ivanka Trump Shoes Tell of Long Hours, Low Pay, Abuse

“Her” workers?

Do you eat shrimp? Much of “your” shrimp is cleaned and packaged by child and slave labor in Asia.

What a cheap spitball.

https://www.bing.com/images/search?...sa+products+and+asian+slave+labor.+&FORM=IGRE
 
Isn't that the whole point of companies moving overseas? They get to underpay and abuse workers. It's good for the wallet.

Hi MrPeanut; there is just one other thing about that: (1) They get to underpay and abuse workers. (2) It's good for the wallet

(3) displace American labor
 
I like Sen. Sherrod Brown's proposal to 45 that companies paying American workers $15/hr plus health insurance get a tax break.
 
It is a fact. No Liberal in the world uses low skilled under paid employees anywhere for any reason.

Liberals are pure as white snow and morally better in every way...

Sounds like the usual schoolyard taunts we hear from 45. Really lame on your part.
 
I like Sen. Sherrod Brown's proposal to 45 that companies paying American workers $15/hr plus health insurance get a tax break.

Meh. His support would be more useful in pushing for the end of the H1-B visa program.
 
Meh. His support would be more useful in pushing for the end of the H1-B visa program.

But...who'd prune 45's grape vines or clean his toilet?
 
It is a fact. No Liberal in the world uses low skilled under paid employees anywhere for any reason.

Liberals are pure as white snow and morally better in every way...

Ohferfvcksake.
 
“Her” workers?

Do you eat shrimp? Much of “your” shrimp is cleaned and packaged by child and slave labor in Asia.

What a cheap spitball.

https://www.bing.com/images/search?...sa+products+and+asian+slave+labor.+&FORM=IGRE

Do you know the difference between production and consumption? As in the difference between buying tennis balls from an American company that are made in Thailand and moving a tennis ball factory from the US to Thailand?
Shrimp? Really?
 
The hall was so crowded! It was like daddy's inaguration all over again!

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Sounds like the usual schoolyard taunts we hear from 45. Really lame on your part.

It was a reflection of the stupidity of the post I quoted... nothing more. But you missed the obvious sarcasm. Hmmm...
 
Ivanka Trump Praises Working Women in Asia, but Her Chinese Factory Workers Are Abused




The White House spokeswoman for women's issues?

Make America Great Again? (as her products are made in China, Vietnam, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Ethiopia)

She's as big a hypocrite as Daddy.

Related: Workers From Factory Making Ivanka Trump Shoes Tell of Long Hours, Low Pay, Abuse

The little people with no workers rights and slave wages...See you soon here in America. MAGA
 
It was a reflection of the stupidity of the post I quoted... nothing more. But you missed the obvious sarcasm. Hmmm...

So the OP mentions the hypocrisy of trump, the topic of the thread, and you deflect with your typical liberal bull**** comments and you claim the OP made a stupid comment? So let’s see, in your opinion are the trumps being hypocrites or not?
 
Do you know the difference between production and consumption? As in the difference between buying tennis balls from an American company that are made in Thailand and moving a tennis ball factory from the US to Thailand?
Shrimp? Really?

That is a distinction without a difference in the context of what you are accusing Ivanka of.
 
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