When you step into Abercrombie & Fitch and you pick up a pair of jeans , do you ever wonder where the jeans came from or who made them , I'm 100% sure you don’t. What if I told you that the $100 pair of jeans that u just picked out were made by Saipan workers that made less then $3.00 an hour? Thousands of Chinese migrant workers were paid $7,000 to come to America and work for Abercrombie on the promise of getting a good job and getting paid well. When they got to America they became indentured servants that had to repay that debt by sewing clothes 12 hours a day, 7 days a week. Many were forced to sign contracts forbidding them from participating in religious or political activity, asking for a raise, falling in love, getting married or having a baby.
The workers lived under Chinese law in a territory of the United States, where they lived in rat-infested barracks where the toilets did not work and water was contaminated. There were over 1000 OSHA violations that were found in the factory including, locked fire exits. Also consider this the company made $1.2 billion this year alone and profits equaled to $158 million and the wage of a worker in Saipan is less then $3.00 an hour which they don’t keep anyway. Maybe they should write on the label that the clothes were in fact not made in America and made by people forced to be slaves, because kids buying these clothes are not aware under the conditions that they were made. So next time you walk into Abercrombie just consider the conditions under which people have to work to produce that sweater or that pair or jeans and by buying it you’re being just as guilty as the CEO Michael S. Jeffries.
The workers lived under Chinese law in a territory of the United States, where they lived in rat-infested barracks where the toilets did not work and water was contaminated. There were over 1000 OSHA violations that were found in the factory including, locked fire exits. Also consider this the company made $1.2 billion this year alone and profits equaled to $158 million and the wage of a worker in Saipan is less then $3.00 an hour which they don’t keep anyway. Maybe they should write on the label that the clothes were in fact not made in America and made by people forced to be slaves, because kids buying these clothes are not aware under the conditions that they were made. So next time you walk into Abercrombie just consider the conditions under which people have to work to produce that sweater or that pair or jeans and by buying it you’re being just as guilty as the CEO Michael S. Jeffries.
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