Should it be the UN duty to set a International minimum wage. I be hearing stories about how little kids in Indonesia, Haiti, China, and other places in the world work under harsh conditions and make little pay. My friend who lived in Cambodia, his father had to ride a bike 12 miles to this sweat shop to make 10 American dollars for 6 12 hour work. if there was a universal minimum wage then maybe all those kids won't have to worry about working to support their families, and they can focus on getting an education.Besides it can probably keep jobs from going overseas
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NO!! Stop it, nobody cares what the UN says anyways. NO!!!
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Yes. Not only would that serve to end the super-exploitation of the international workforce, but it is the only way that the wages of American workers can be protected. "An injury to one is an injury to all." -- Old union battlecry
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First we should enforce the minimum wage in our own country, then for others. there are kids working in factories in the u.s. everyday who work for a lot less than the minimum wage. you have a good idea but let us first control our own system.
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Yes indeed, if we set an international minimum wage, and basic minimal rules on the value of work and worker's rights, then the world will be a fair and good place. It would also mean that capitalism would find it harder to operate, because capitalism literally profits from differences in wages and rules. A capitalist migrates to places where he can exploit people, ruin the environment without being punished, and steal land and resources from people who are incapable of defending themselves. We can counter this by creating internationally binding rules and a universal minimum wage. But this will be very difficult to achieve, because capitalists are extremely powerful, and they would obviously do everything to avoid the creation of such rules.
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The U.N. would have no way to enforce an international minimum wage. And if they tried they'd be laughed at. The best way to advance human rights abroad is to regulate our own international trade the way it was before Clinton's NAFTA.
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How about the united states set up tarriffs on priducts that come from corrupt places like china and cambodia nd pay their people $1 per hour. That sounds like a plan to me. Buy american.
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Oh. Of course, but how could it be enforced? Robert Mugabe breaks multiple U.N. human rights statutes daily and all we can do is sanction. And i guess sanctions on already poor nations like Cambodia, Haiti are only going to make things worse. <sigh>
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Yes! The minimum wage USA has! aaaaahahahaha! We love all this mess in the World!
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There should be, but it would be impossible to enforce. The UN can't even keep genocides from happening
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hey dude(I have to control myself not to insult you answering this question),the un is a corrupt organization that is powerless.the possibility of an international minimum wage is an insult to society.you people have to clean up your own(sh*i*t) governments or get rid of them.wake the fk up !
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the UN is a waste of space and taxpayers money. They all like to come here and bad mouth the United States at every chance, but take every opportunity to abuse our laws and get immunity while they are here. I think it's time they find a new home !
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The un is a corrupt joke they don't even care If you want to have goods made by people who earn a decent wage by American and we'll all get a raise and the recession will be over.
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I know a place here in America I can make ten dollars a day washing golf carts. I can make ten dollars a day picking oranges. I can make ten dollars a day cleaning baking pans. I can make ten dollars a day sorting steel and aluminum. I can make ten dollars a day washing dishes at a Chinese Restaurant. Nobody really gives a crap about a minimum wage because the world is about being illegal. If you pay a minimum wage you cannot make any money. I don't work because I am not able to perform any of those activities. I just lay here and complain. What a sh!tty country we have made. The takers can only take as long as the givers can give. The rich have almost ruined the place.
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Not unless the cost of living becomes the same internationally.
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It sounds a good idea. Will it ever happen in my lifetime.....no because of greed.
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Whether such a thing is attempted by the U.N. or someone else is irrelevant because it can't work from the getgo. There is too much of a disparity between the economic realities of developed and undeveloped countries. In some very poor countries people might work for several dollars (or the equivalent) a day, but this is dictated by the nature of their economies. If one were to require that, say, a common laborer be paid $8.00 or $10.00 per hour, his annual income would be more than most professionals in that country. The economy - and the country - would very soon fall apart. You can't mess (successfully) with Mother Nature! Hope this clears a few things up for you. Have a nice day!!
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I don't really know how to answer your question fully. I do know it would take more than a universal minimum wage. We had the same problem in the US early in the last century. It took union labor movements to change the laws and force the companies to have better conditions for the working people. Our own government and a lot of the population fought the unions but they did change the face of employment in America. Closing sweat shops and not working children and low wages are all a part of this problem. Even today a lot of our larger companies send work overseas to places where they have sweat shops and children workers and extremely low wages because they can't do it here and make the same profit. The people making our tennis shoes make about $3 a day and some of these shoes cost a pretty penny. In some of these countries they are just as glad to get the work as we hate losing it. We are not really a country where most companies think much of their employees. We are a capitalist nation that has large companies that think the bottom line is profit and any way you can get that profit is ok. The only reason they don't do so much of the bad here is because of the laws that keep those thing from happening. If you really look into it there are a lot of kids right here who drop out of school because their families can't afford to feed and clothe them.
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Imposing a false set of standards on private business is what got us into the economic mess we are in. Why impose more?
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