It's Official: Everything made in Sweatshops!

Report: Everything Made In Sweatshops

July 24, 2006 | Issue 42•30



NEW YORK—A new U.S. Department Of Labor study revealed that Martha Stewart Living housewares, Tommy Hilfiger clothing, iPod music players, forks, diapers, telephones, and every other conceivable consumer good in existence is manufactured by people laboring in sweatshop conditions. "Long hours, low wages, and unsafe work areas are involved in producing everything our civilization uses," Labor Secretary Elaine Chao said at a press conference Tuesday. "It is now literally impossible for anyone anywhere in this country to purchase any single thing that doesn't infringe on someone's human rights." Chao added that even the few items still made in the U.S., such as designer T-shirts and certain Toyota sedans, are also produced in deadly squalor, mostly by illegal immigrants. The Department of Labor recommended no immediate course of action in response to the report, which was compiled by 135 government employees in an 20-by-80-foot Quonset hut without air-conditioning working six 18-hour shifts a week for $1.15 an hour.

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/50883

 

That's a sad statement.

 

Happy, happy thrift stores, whew!
Or shop online.
It's corporate hell, grawr.

 

Um, hello? The Onion? Satire?

I can't believe anyone would honestly take an article in The Onion seriously.

There are lots of affordable alternatives to sweatshops. Wake up and smell the fair trade coffee, people. This article is a spoof.

 

Well of course it's satire, but that's not really the point.

What makes a satire good is when you can't even tell it's satire. The fact that the OP read this and thought it was true may show his/her ignorance, but it also proves that this scenario is not too far-fetched.

 

very true. its a scarey thought. check out www.nosweatapparel.com for good stuff.

 

I never said it was true.
I posted it because it's funny.
I read The Onion every issue...

 

I thought the onion was only in Boulder! I know the company is based here.