Oppression

  The workers have been mistreated in many ways through the years. This became a common situation in all work even when the US said that if guest workers complain about abuses, the employers face deportation, blacklisting or other retaliation. Some companies or small businesses do not use proper security measures in the workplace and that is considered abuse of workers.

  In 1911 a tragedy occurred when a fire broke out at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, located just east of Washington Square Park in the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan. The factory occupied the eighth, ninth and 10th floors of the building.On the ninth floor, the owners had locked one of the two exit doors to prevent theft. The fire started in a scrap bin on the eighth floor, where employees then notified the 10th floor switchboard, but the ninth floor never received warning. In the end, 146 people died, most of them Jewish and Italian immigrant women. The tragedy outraged the city and galvanized the labor movement. It instantly became a symbol of the struggle between management and labor that had been percolating for some time and would escalate in its aftermath. This is just one important example of what the workers had past through many years ago and now things have not changed. According to four workers of the Walmart's global business, the model of this is based on creating a system that keeps workers in a cycle of low wages, no voice on the job, and dangerous working conditions. This is violation the article 23 of the United Nations Declaration of Rights that says "Everyone, without any discrimination, has the right to equal pay for equal work."

      It is so sad that the owners of the companies and business of this country did not follow the rules just for save money. All the people have rights and its not fair that some people work allot and the wages are so low. All the people have to be treated equal in any circumstances.




 http://www.history.com/news/2011/03/24/100-years-ago-the-triangle-shirtwaist-fire/
http://www.ufcw400.org/2011/04/workers-testify-of-mistreatment-throughout-walmarts-supply-chain/