DO NOWEntry Task – think

• When you get a job, what do you expect your working conditions to be like?

Hours? Compensation?Health, safety? Treatment?

AND NOW…Discuss with a shoulder partner!

• When you get a job, what do you expect your working conditions to be like?

Hours? Compensation?Health, safety? Treatment?

LyddieLearning Objectives

I can explain some of the differences between working conditions in developing and developed countries.

I can participate in discussions that help me form my opinions about what constitutes fair working conditions.

I can articulate my beliefs about fair working conditions, considering my position as a future worker.

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Next two weeks:• Research working conditions of

TODAY• Have the issues of the past been

resolved?• In the US?• In the world?• For businesses or consumers?

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Wegmans• Example of a “good” place to work

in NY

• Look at their website!

• Working Conditions Chart

Click on me!

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Wegmans• Turn & talk to shoulder partner

• What is it like to work at this store?

• Add again to the “Examples of FAIR Working Conditions” on the chart

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Next two weeks:• Research the garment industry• Garment = clothes• Where are most clothes made today?

Developing Country• Relatively poor (low “cost of

living”)• Low wages• Not much industry or technology• Changing and growing

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FOUR CORNERS protocol:• See a fact/ statement• Go to the corner matching your

opinion• Strongly agree• Mostly agree• Mostly disagree• Strongly disagree

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Because all wages and the cost of living are lower in Bangladesh, it is fair that the average hourly wage for a garment worker there is $0.24 while in the United States it is $8.25.

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It is never fair to have children younger than 16 working in factories, even if their parents give permission.

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It is the responsibility of the governments of other countries (not U.S. companies) to make sure the garment factories are safe. Governments there should pass and enforce laws to protect their citizens.

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U.S. consumers (buyers) have some responsibility for poor working conditions and low wages in garment factories in other countries, because they demand cheap clothes and don’t demand that companies provide fair working conditions to the people who make them.

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Researcher’s Notebook:• What are current working conditions

like in the garment industry?

• Look at Part I of the Notebook

LyddieHomework

Homework!

• Independent Reading Book (15-20 min)