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Moving US Jobs to Chinese Sweatshops (links to audio)

by RadioActive Monday, Mar. 18, 2002 at 2:08 AM

A discussion about how 700 shoe worker jobs have recently been moved to China, where workers are paid S_UMMARY.25 an hour and work in poor conditions.

RadioActive: Moving US Jobs to Chinese Sweatshops
March 14, 2002

700 Maine shoe workers have recently lost their jobs.

Bjorn Clausen of the Bangor Clean Clothes Campaign talks about how those jobs have been moved to China. Chinese shoe workers only make about 3% of what former workers in Maine once earned.

Also discussed are efforts to expose where and under what conditions our clothes are made.

Choose a link below to listen or download - 28 minutes 50 seconds:

ME-IMC: [realmedia stream 20 kbps][realmedia stream 8kbps]
A-Infos Radio Project: [realmedia stream 20 kbps][realmedia stream 8kbps][download MP3][A-Infos Radio Project Page]

 


Related Audio Programs:

Laid Off Workers Rally in Bangor, Maine, Broadcast Jan 24, 2002
ME-IMC: [Maine IMC 56k stream]
A-Infos Radio Project: [56k real stream][14-28k real stream][Download MP3][AIRP page]

Laid Off Saucony Worker Interview, Jan 17, 2002
[56k real stream][14-28k real stream][MP3 download site][AIRP page]

Maine Workers and Economic Stimulus, Dec 13, 2001
[56k real stream][14-28k real stream][Download MP3][AIRP page]

Bangladeshi Sweatshop Workers Speak Out, Nov 15, 2001
[56k real stream][14-28k real stream][Download MP3][AIRP page]

 


RadioActive is a grassroots environmental and social justice news journal hosted by Amy Browne & Meredith DeFrancesco, and heard weekly on WERU FM 89.9 Blue Hill and 102.9 Bangor, Maine. The program airs each Thursday at 4:00 pm. For more information on RadioActive, visit http://www.freespeech.org/ran

 

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