Maquiladora are In Mexico, a maquiladora is a manufacturing operation, where factories import certain material and equipment on a duty-free and tariff-free basis for assembly, processing, or manufacturing and then export the assembled, processed and/or manufactured. They set these up because of cheep labour. They are the result because of free trade agreement so they can go there because of cheep labour. People lost there jobs when they moved the company to Mexico. Because they were cheeper to pay.
I learned about Nike and how it effect many people. Nike is in lots of third world countries. I learned that the workers from this big corporation in the third world countries aren't getting payed the right amount and are actually are getting payed less. And the work environment isn't the safest. But a lot of these workers are children and working long hours. They send these corporations to these places because there labour law is low so they don't have to pay there workers as much. And I don;t like how they can make the children work in places like this when they should be in school getting an education. But the one factory in Vietnam the people who work there are happy to be working there because in 3 years they can get a bike and another 3 years a scooter then a car. But not only the people in the third world countries were effected badly by Nike, but the people in the US. Because they lost there jobs when Nike moved there corporations. We pay so much for a pair of shoes that cost so little to make. I think is wrong to have sweatshops. It is so madding knowing that there is childlabour. And knowing that there are shoes that the KIDS make that are being sold for $250 but the kids are being payed not even a dollar a week. Its not right. These kids have human rights but there not being respected.
HIPC ( Heavily Indebted Poor Countries ) I think the government should stop spending money if there country is in really badly indebted. If the government knows how bad it is then why does he/she keep spending money on things the people don't need, and not trying to get their country out of debt . It makes me so mad that the government knows how badly indebted they are and it seems like they just keep borrowing money form different places. But they are so much in debt they cant pay back what they took. Why keep buying stuff you can't pay for?
I learned about Nike and how it effect many people. Nike is in lots of third world countries. I learned that the workers from this big corporation in the third world countries aren't getting payed the right amount and are actually are getting payed less. And the work environment isn't the safest. But a lot of these workers are children and working long hours. They send these corporations to these places because there labour law is low so they don't have to pay there workers as much. And I don;t like how they can make the children work in places like this when they should be in school getting an education. But the one factory in Vietnam the people who work there are happy to be working there because in 3 years they can get a bike and another 3 years a scooter then a car. But not only the people in the third world countries were effected badly by Nike, but the people in the US. Because they lost there jobs when Nike moved there corporations. We pay so much for a pair of shoes that cost so little to make. I think is wrong to have sweatshops. It is so madding knowing that there is childlabour. And knowing that there are shoes that the KIDS make that are being sold for $250 but the kids are being payed not even a dollar a week. Its not right. These kids have human rights but there not being respected.
HIPC ( Heavily Indebted Poor Countries ) I think the government should stop spending money if there country is in really badly indebted. If the government knows how bad it is then why does he/she keep spending money on things the people don't need, and not trying to get their country out of debt . It makes me so mad that the government knows how badly indebted they are and it seems like they just keep borrowing money form different places. But they are so much in debt they cant pay back what they took. Why keep buying stuff you can't pay for?