ALTAVILLA VICENTINA, Italy — Alberto Zamperla sweeps through the cavernous workshop here where his amusement rides are manufactured while workers measure and bang and solder enormous platforms, oddly shaped beams and assorted fiberglass vehicles.
Corporations like Apple and HP could do the right thing by simply entering into contracts with the Congolese and Chinese governments to ensure that raw materials are mined and products are manufactured by workers who are paid a living wage and given adequate benefits.
In conventional manufacture, workers use shears to cut the sheets to the desired shape, layering them in a mold.
The first analysis [ 137] included 773 male pentachlorophenol manufacture workers exposed to TCDD.
By the early 1950s, nearly all of the plywood produced in the United States was manufactured by worker-owned cooperatives.
They believe now is a good time to urge companies which have given into pressure on climate concerns by becoming more environmentally friendly to recognize human rights concerns by committing to carry goods manufactured in worker-protected environments.
The 41% drop in the peso against the dollar since August has made Mexico an even cheaper place to manufacture: Factory workers in Juarez can be hired for $1.50 an hour.
It means raw materials will be provided by the government, products will be manufactured by the workers in the factories and, because actual end products will come out, workers will receive rations.
No, she was told; workers manufactured hundreds every day.
In the United States, more than a century of activism and legislation has drastically improved factory safety at home, but so much of our clothing is now manufactured overseas where workers do not have the same protections.
