Bargaining Right

Exploiting Prison Workers for Cheap Sheets
|

Exploiting Prison Workers for Cheap Sheets

ByEyes on Trafficking News

It took Johnny Perez over four years of making hundreds of bedsheets every day at a factory to reach the top pay tier: about 32 cents an hour, nearly double his starting wage. He was one of the highest-paid workers at Coxsackie Correctional Facility—a textile manufacturer run by the New York State prison system. When…

11 times Jacob Rees-Mogg revealed what he really thinks about your rights
|

11 times Jacob Rees-Mogg revealed what he really thinks about your rights

ByEyes on Trafficking News

Editor’s note: we have no political affiliation; this is presented for educational purposes. Jacob Rees-Mogg is now the man in charge of our hard-won workers’ rights, as the secretary of state for business, energy and industrial strategy. The UK’s last two prime ministers, Theresa May and Boris Johnson, both promised that Brexit would not weaken…

China’s Forced Labor Problem
| |

China’s Forced Labor Problem

ByEyes on Trafficking News

In China, forced labor is sensitive topic. Years pass between the odd case of forced labor that sees the light of day in local media. Local labor NGOs rarely approach incidents of serious coercion in forced labor terms. Nobody knows the real extent, and surprisingly few, from China as well as abroad, prioritize exploring this…