Should minimum wages extend across borders?
Posted in sweatshops by labornotes on October 8th, 2009 A British workers’ rights group is calling for a common minimum wage across Asia, and Labor Notes’ Mark Brenner was on PRI’s “Marketplace Morning Report” radio show supporting the notion. Multinational companies dodge the issue of how much the people who make their products are paid, he said, and putting a floor below wages across Asia would force companies to stop playing one country off another.
