Mickey Mouse Goes to Haiti Part 2

1996 documentary from the National Labor Committee.

This video documents the harsh conditions in which some of the Disney Company's garments and products are manufactured in Haiti, the poorest country in the western hemisphere. Workers are intimidated and will be fired if they try to unionize. While a living wage would only cost the corporation 58 cents an hour to pay the contracted factory workers, the wage doesn't even come close to that.

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[openyourfuckingeyes]

newdream. org/ marketplace /clothing. php

[akaCharlieG]

How old is this video?

[openyourfuckingeyes]

@akaCharlieG

~ 15 yrs old

[hollywoodartchick]

But it is only a matter of time till the job loss to the 3rd world drops our value as workers, too. With competition for each job up, the price of labor drops. Imagine a US where most of us live like this, and a privileged minority uses us as slaves. Their plight is our plight. It is in our interest to make sure foreign contractors pay good wages wherever they operate.

[Pbirv]

And who's gonna buy their products when 70-90% of the population is either unemployed or working for slave wages? Even Henry Ford was smart enough to raise his workers' wages enough for them to be able to afford his cars. Now everybody's adopted the WalMart principle.

[thatnewguy23]

Makes me profoundly sad to see that this is what my family came from and there are still so many of us left there.

[HexFireZ]

i wonder how much disney earned so far from this

[obeymbs412]

lets burn disney land!

[openyourfuckingeyes]

@DarrelfromZeeland

such simplistic nonsense.

[DarrelfromZeeland]

@otacon451 You mean LIBERAL policies have turned nations into ghettos. Marxist dictators turned Haiti and every other country they ever got their socialist hands on into bankrupt shitholes. Now Barry Osamao's doing the same thing to America.

[otacon451]

@DarrelfromZeeland neoliberal policies have turned nations into ghettos, allowing capital flight but not human flight.

[greenerbeanerbutt03]

@openyourfuckingeyes

"than"

[VampireLord66]

Honestly I've heard this same stuff about him being a Corporatist Bastard and an Antisemite, but Ive heard it from websites that dont exactly have a reputation for being reputable. So until I get real evidence, I'm not believing it