Originally Posted by
Emma Royds
The travelling public in any country have a choice and can choose who they wish to fly with. Cost and convenience will always come before ethics.
When you go into a clothes shop, do you check the label on a garment to see if it was made in a sweatshop in a third world country before you buy it and let that influence your decision to purchase it?
But does that clothes shop or clothes manufacturer who uses sweat shops to produce clothes get a medal for 'exemplary' and role model behavior?
Just because someone dumps hundreds of tons of clothes produced in a sweat shop onto the market, or lands x-amount of A380's and B777's at a certain airport, does it automatically make it a good thing?
I can understand that the country in which the sweat shops are located gives the CEO a medal because obviously they don't care about worker's rights and safety, but why would a first world country with much higher (and more expensive!) worker rights and safety standards give a medal to the CEO who is actively undermining their entire social and economic structure?
It doesn't make any sense, except if the global elite don't really care about you and me and perhaps use this cost-war as a convenient excuse to squeeze more money out of the people who do the hard work whilst filling their own pockets with even bigger bonuses hidden away in tax free shell companies in far-away countries?