In Malaysia a study on the electronic industry found that about 42% of the workers were under forced conditions because there passport and papers had been taken away. The rest were forced due do high illegal recruitment fees. About 92% of the people in the industry had to pay high recruitment fees to get there jobs and it cost more than a months salary for 42% of those to pay it back. These employees are working on products for big companies including apple, sony, and samsung. Should the US government regulate how many of these products are sold in the states? Should they regulate if US based companies should be able to this king of labor to manufacture there products? If they do how might that effect the US or the companies inflicting forced labor.
Source: New York Times Malaysia Article
I think the US definatly has to check into these companies because forced labor should not be tolerated. It is sad that these companies are so big and have so much money but they can't even hire workers, they force them to work. If the US doesn't do anything about the worlers then the products being sold should be regulated.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you that these products should be regulated in the US. If these factories were in the US, the employment rate would go up but other countries offer cheap labor so that is where they get manufactured. I also believe that the US should do something to protect the Malaysians who's right have been taken away.
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